[Updated at 11:44 a.m. ET] Egypt's highest court declared the parliament invalid Thursday, and the country's interim military rulers promptly declared full legislative authority, triggering a new level of chaos and confusion in the country's leadership.
The Supreme Constitutional Court also ruled that a former member of President Hosni Mubarak's regime may run in a presidential election runoff this weekend.
The ruling on parliament means that it must be dissolved, state TV reported.
The court found that all articles making up the law that regulated parliamentary elections are invalid, said Showee Elsayed, a constitutional lawyer.
Parliament had been in session for just over four months. It was dominated by Islamists, a group long viewed with suspicion by the military.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, in control of the country since Mubarak's ouster, announced that it now has full legislative power and will announce a 100-person assembly that will write the country's new constitution. The court's rulings come a day after Egypt's military-led government imposed a de facto martial law, extending the arrest powers of security forces.
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Round two...
don't want to lose the U.S. Tax money aid.....
Let the Chaos begin. This is sad that the Military has run Egypt for so long and they are not willing to give up power.
What Revolution?
If the Muslim Brotherhood takes control, Egypt is lost.
If the Christian Brotherhood (tea baggers) take over the US, all hope is lost.
Thats the reason the uprising happened. The youth want the Muslim Brotherhood in there. Thats why I dont understand why everyone was rooting for them. Say hello to New Egypt a new safe haven for muslim terrorists.
I can't believe "Alabama Black Snake" could even remotely make a moral equivalency between Republicans and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Liberalism IS a mental disorder.
Yay the Arab spring is ...what? Ummm...ok then....
Here we go again!
doesn't look like anyone gives a crap. cool story though. if you read very carefully, you can see that parliament had been in session for just over 4 months.
You better hope and pray the training those officers received form us is holding . . .
Oh wow, looks like all that fight for change has just been screwed over. Poor Egypt....!
and so it begins....
Is this what the Arab Spring meant? I was way off in my understanding...
Meet the new president... Same as the old president.
More pain for Egypt.
Sounds like that Arab Spring is working out great....
We're Screwed!!!
Not yet . . .