REUTERS: Egypt’s ruling Islamists tried to defuse a political crisis on Monday, with President Mohamed Mursi backing a compromise over his seizure of extended powers and his Muslim Brotherhood calling off a planned demonstration…
Mursi held crisis talks with members of the Supreme Judicial Council, the nation’s highest judicial body, to resolve the crisis over the decree that was seen as targeting in part a legal establishment still largely unreformed from Mubarak’s era.
The council had proposed he limit the scope of decisions that would be immune from judicial review to “sovereign matters”, language the presidential spokesman said Mursi backed… (more)
