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At a conference sponsored by three conservative organizations, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claimed that people are losing trust in the Supreme Court. That’s not exactly true. That ship sailed a long time ago. The truth is that people lost trust in the Supreme Court when the Court decided to defer to the omnipotent power of the national-security branch of the federal government. When the Court did that, it abrogated its sworn duty to defend the Constitution and, in the process, forever disgraced itself.
The same thing happened in Chile after the national-security branch of the Chilean government, with the full support of the Pentagon and the CIA, ousted the democratically elected socialist president, Salvador Allende, from power and replaced him with a rightwing military dictator named Augusto Pinochet. The Chilean Supreme Court not only upheld the manifestly unconstitutional act, it then proceeded to turn a blind eye to the kidnappings, torture, indefinite detentions, rapes, executions, or ...