The justice and the politicians
GENERALS may be relieved of their commands, presidents overthrown, but not often does the highest judge in the land get impeached. Yet that, but for the grace of a tied vote (with one abstention) in Congress, could have been the misfortune of Servando Jordan, current president of Chile's Supreme Court.
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