{"id":35847,"date":"2012-11-24T22:30:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T22:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/morsi_urged_to_retract_edict_to_bypass_judges\/"},"modified":"2012-11-24T22:30:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T22:30:45","slug":"morsi_urged_to_retract_edict_to_bypass_judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35847","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi Urged to Retract Edict to Bypass Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian judges and prosecutors struck back on Saturday against an attempt by President Mohamed Morsi to place his decrees above judicial review, vowing to challenge his edict in court and reportedly going on strike in Alexandria.<\/p>\n<p>Abdel Meguid Mahmoud, a prosecutor whom Mr. Morsi is seeking to fire, declared to a crowd of cheering judges at Egypt\u2019s high court that the presidential decree was \u201cnull and void.\u201d\u009d Mr. Mahmoud, who was appointed by Mr. Morsi\u2019s predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, denounced \u201cthe systematic campaign against the country\u2019s institutions in general and the judiciary in particular.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Outside the court, the police fired tear gas at protesters who were denouncing Mr. Morsi and trying to force their way into the building.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/25\/world\/middleeast\/morsi-urged-to-retract-edict-to-bypass-judges-in-egypt.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian judges and prosecutors struck back on Saturday against an attempt by President Mohamed Morsi to place his decrees above judicial review, vowing to challenge his edict in court and reportedly going on strike in Alexandria. Abdel Meguid Mahmoud, a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35847\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,560,168,144,133,114,203,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-egypt","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}