Egypt's top judges have accused
President Mohammed Mursi of staging an "unprecedented attack" on the
judiciary.
The president passed a decree earlier this week granting himself extensive
new powers.
It includes a bar on any court dissolving the constituent assembly, which is
drawing up a new constitution.
Thursday's decree sparked angry demonstrations, and attacks on offices of Mr
Mursi's Islamist FJP party.
The president has said he is acting to protect the revolution.
In a statement, the Supreme Judicial Council called his move "an
unprecedented attack on the independence of the judiciary and its rulings," and
called on him to reverse it.
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