cairoRELATED CAIRO: Protests by Islamists allied to President Mohamed Morsi forced Egypt's highest court to adjourn its work indefinitely on Sunday, intensifying a conflict between some of the country's top judges and the head of state.
The Supreme Constitutional Court said it would not convene until its judges could operate without "psychological and material pressure" , saying protesters had stopped the judges from reaching the building.
Several hundred Morsi supporters had protested outside the court through the night ahead of a session expected to examine the legality of parliament's upper house and the assembly that drafted a new constitution, both of them Islamist-controlled.
The cases have cast a legal shadow over Morsi's efforts to chart a way out of a crisis ignited by a November 22 decree that temporarily expanded his powers. The court's decision appeared unlikely to have an immediate impact on Morsi's drive to get the new statute passed in a national referendum on December 15.
Three people have been killed and hundreds wounded in protests and counter-protests over Morsi's decree. ALSO ON TOI
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