{"id":30151,"date":"2012-06-14T10:25:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T17:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=30151"},"modified":"2012-06-14T10:25:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T17:25:52","slug":"cnn-some-cry-coup-as-egypts-highest-court-annuls-parliament-military-extends-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/06\/14\/cnn-some-cry-coup-as-egypts-highest-court-annuls-parliament-military-extends-power\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN: Some cry &#8216;coup&#8217; as Egypt&#8217;s highest court annuls parliament, military extends power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s highest court declared the parliament invalid Thursday, and the country&#8217;s interim military rulers promptly declared full legislative authority, triggering a new level of chaos and confusion in the country&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Constitutional Court found that all articles making up the law that regulated parliamentary elections are invalid, said Showee Elsayed, a constitutional lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling means that parliament must be dissolved, state TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament has been in session for just over four months. It is dominated by Islamists, a group long viewed with suspicion by the military.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, in control of the country since Mubarak&#8217;s ouster, said that it now has full legislative power and will announce a 100-person assembly that will write the country&#8217;s new constitution by Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.cnn.com\/2012\/06\/14\/world\/meast\/egypt-ruling\/index.html\">Read the full article here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s highest court declared the parliament invalid Thursday, and the country&#8217;s interim military rulers promptly declared full legislative authority, triggering a new level of chaos and confusion in the country&#8217;s leadership. The Supreme Constitutional Court found that all articles making up the law that regulated parliamentary elections are invalid, said Showee Elsayed, a constitutional lawyer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}