CAIRO –  Egypt's president on Thursday issued constitutional amendments that placed him above judicial oversight and ordered the retrial of Hosni Mubarak for the killing of protesters in last year's uprising.

Mohammed Morsi also decreed immunity for the Islamist-dominated panel drafting a new constitution from any possible court decisions to dissolve it, a threat that had been hanging over the controversial assembly.

Liberal and Christian members withdrew from the assembly during the past week to protest what they say is the hijacking of the process by Morsi's allies, who they saw are trying to push through a document that will have an Islamist slant marginalizing women and minority Christians and infringing on personal liberties. Several courts have been looking into cases demanding the dissolution of the panel.

The Egyptian leader also decreed that all decisions he has made since taking office in June and until a new constitution is adopted and a new parliament is elected -- which is not expected before next spring -- are not subject to appeal in court or by any other authority. He also barred any court from dissolving the Islamist-led upper house of parliament, a largely toothless body that has also faced court cases.

The moves effectively remove any oversight on Morsi, the longtime Muslim Brotherhood figure who became Egypt's first freely elected president last summer after the Feb. 11, 2011 fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak. They come as Morsi is riding high on lavish praise from President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for mediating an end to eight days of fighting between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers.

Morsi not only holds executive power, he also has legislative authority after a previous court ruling just before he took office on June 30 dissolved the powerful lower house of parliament, which was led by the Brotherhood. With two branches of power in his hands, Morsi has had repeated frictions with the third, the judiciary, over recent months.

"Morsi today usurped all state powers & appointed himself Egypt's new pharaoh," pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei wrote on his Twitter account. "A major blow to the revolution that could have dire consequences."

The president made most of the changes Thursday by issuing a declaration amending what has become a patchwork interim constitution in effect since Mubarak's fall. The military, which took power after Mubarak, set the precedent for the executive unilaterally issuing constitutional changes, which it did several times during its 16-month rule.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/11/22/egypt-president-morsi-grants-himself-far-reaching-powers/

Power corrupts even the purest of minds and absolute power corrupts absolutely...

Never thought we will ever see another PHARAOH!!!

Thats what happen when Muslims are in power. For the first time a muslim comes to power, and declare himself absolute.
Try it her in Nigeria.

Its not about the muslim brotherhood as a party, its more of the nature of arabs generally!!

Democracy doesn't just work with them and when they adopt it, they have their own version... Always tending towards totalitarianism!!

♓☺w can a president have the executive power, grabs the legislative power and bans the judiciary from ever rescinding his decisions!!

That's not even absolute monarchy, its Pharaohism...

Egypt the cradle of civilization. Dnt be naughty Mr President.

dictatorship

Morsi has somehow numbered his days

I heard it yesterday and I was LOL.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE WITH THE DEPOSED REGIME OF MUBARAK THEN
THIS MUSLIM OCCULTHOOD BROTHERHOOD

JUST LIKE THE PHARAOHS OF OLD

Who says democracy is the best form of govt for every nation?if he delivers then it shouldn't matter.....after all GEJ doesn't seem to have absolute power,yet...

Decrees are meant for military juntas not democratically elected presidents!

from fry pan to fire. na wah o !

I guess he lives in the 6th century B.C...is he not like Pharoah now? damn, this is crazy

Here comes the Pharaoh

Behold! a new dictator is born!!!
Power is so intoxicating!

from fry pan to fire. It's not good for a state to be rule by religious fanatics especially when it's a multicultural society.

they are always acting like pharaoh their grand pa

This is Egyptian version of democracy!!!!!

Ada Nri1: Behold! a new dictator is born!!!
Power is so intoxicating!

exactly,power atimes becomes compromising.

Ile-Ife:
Here comes the Pharaoh

No shoemaker for Egypt? why is the main wearing a loosed slippers?

I never supported the Arab Spring revolution. I knew all these while it was not ordinary. Now the people coming are worse that the people that were there.

Welcome to the New World Order. The obstacles are off the way.

Haha Interesting!

Obama is your friend .

Biased report, all I see is Islamist and Muslim. Why is the us not described by religious adjectives.

Let's see how the whole thing pans out! What he does with these new powers will determine his fate!

Results of Arab sring, they would be begging for mubarak soon enough

Please where are the Obama sychophants! This is one of Obama's achievements oh. He even mentioned it during the debate. What a great achievement. All hail the kenyan! Sorry American!

I pity all those coptic christians and all other minorities!
Their geese are cooked!
Welcome to Arab's winter
Smh

Why are human beings so power drunk...Make GEJ no just think am becos they too wan ammend constitution...

Arabs no dey stay one place, always doing one thing or the other, if they are not fighting, they are protesting.

They protested for Mubarak to go and now a new president has come into power with more radical views and awarded himself greater powers than Mubarak and now they are back protesting.

What's wrong with arabs?

What many people don't know is that American founding fathers(particularly James Madison who layter became the 4th president of the US) got their idea of the seperation of power from the bible. Isaiah 33:22
"For the LORD is our judge (judiciary), the LORD is our lawgiver (legislature), the LORD is our king (Executive) ..."

Any nation that will allow the Bible to influence their constitution, culture and way of thinking will rise to be the most powerful nation on earth(Ex USA). It is also evident from history that nations that have been influenced by the Qurans sharia law are the worst nations on earth today(eg Afghanisatn). And produced the worst dictators from Idi amin, to Abacha, Sadam, Ghadafi etc