A spokesman for the group said at an authorized news conference that Mr. Morsi was issuing a new, more limited decree, giving immunity from judicial scrutiny only to his "constitutional declarations," a narrow if hazily defined category of presidential actions.
What's more, "the decree covers the researchers who won their positions before 31 October 2003.
"Widows" is a ballpark away from any of those, less a meditation and more a decree. .
The court decided not to rule on the larger constitutional questions in that case and issued a more limited decree.
American advisers say they have no more major decrees to issue.
But large signs posted by the front door list edicts that are more Communist Party decrees than Koranic doctrines.
Berdymukhamedov, who was formerly a dentist and then became Niyazov's health minister, presided over a very gradual liberalisation when he first came to power after Niyazov's death, reversing some of the late president's more eccentric decrees.
Or, at least, that was the story that went around to explain why, the following day, "the Leader" is said to have issued one of his more idiosyncratic decrees: that barbershops in Libya close.
The president presides over the Council of Ministers and other high councils, signs the more important decrees, appoints high civil servants and judges, negotiates and ratifies treaties, and is commander in chief of the armed forces.
In America, there are more post-decree cases than divorce cases pending.
