Egypt's Court of Appeals decided on Wednesday to suspend its operations until President Mohamed Mursi rescinds a constitutional decree he issued on Thursday.
Egypt's Court of Cassation also decided on Wednesday to join the strike against the president's decree.
Mursi issued a decree on Thursday expanding his powers and shielding his decisions from judicial review - a move seen by Egyptian judges as an attempt to undermine their role and disregard the country's constitution.
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Had the Egyptian Court of Appeals ever suspended its operations during the 32 years of Hosni Mubarak rule in any effort to force the overthrown dictator Hosni Mubarak to rescind any of his decrees? Of course not! Why not? Because the Court of Appeals's judges are judges appointed by Mubarak, and they still serve him as his "mules!" That was why the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat had called Mubarak "my mule" when he selected Mubarak to serve as his "Vice President!" It is part of the Egyptian history and culture. When a leader select and appoints someone in a position of his government, that person fully understands when he accept the appointment that he will serve as "the mule" of the appointee. In Egypt, therefore, judges appointed by past unelected despots were not real judges; they were stooges of the appointee, whose only duty was to interpret any decision he made as "the law of the land," and "constitutional!" Now that the Revolution had thown their appointee, Hosni Mubarak, out, the loyalty of those judges still remain with him, and they consider their sacred duty to do everything to sabotage Mr. Morsi, and create instability in the country that might help Hosni Mubarak return to power as a savior of Egypt. Unfortunately for them, Mubarak is not Juan Peron, and, at some point, Mr. Morsi should ax them in order for Egypt to move forward! Nikos Retsos, retired professor