Its temporary legislature, elected in October 2011 mainly to draw up a constitution, has consulted widely.
The decision once again plunged Egypt's political transition back into legal limbo, leaving the normally impotent upper house acting as the temporary legislature.
In the interim, thanks to an election last year when only 10% voted, it controls the previously weak upper house, which the new constitution has helpfully turned into Egypt's sole if temporary legislature.In this section The crisis of government isn't over Still bloody For whom the bell no longer tolls A newly hatched hawk flies high On the brink ReprintsYet Mr Morsi has shown little magnanimity.
According to the constitutional draft, the upper house of parliament, which courts have not yet got around to disbanding, having scrapped the lower house, will act as a temporary full legislature until a new lower house is elected.
Mr. Lieberman, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union who rose to prominence as the leader of the ultranationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party, is still serving as a member of Parliament and as temporary chairman of the legislature's prestigious Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
By contrast, if he had waited until September 1 to announce his resignation the Assembly would already have closed its session, and Governor Powell, a Democrat, would appoint a temporary successor until the legislature convened again two years later.
Judge Diane Wood of the Seventh Circuit ruled that this part of the amendment demands that these appointments be truly temporary, and that state legislatures must move to hold elections to replace the temporarily appointed.
Earlier this month, the state's legislature approved a temporary rate increase to ease the pain for the utilities.
After defense lawyers argued for disclosure about the drugs, the Oklahoma Supreme Court agreed to a temporary stay, but the state legislature threatened to bring impeachment proceedings against the justices, and Mary Fallin, the Oklahoma governor, threatened to fight the delay; the execution went forward as planned.
Republicans in Colorado, like those in Texas, argued that the court-drawn maps used in both states were temporary substitutes and that the legislatures had not relinquished their right to undertake redistricting on their own if they chose to reopen the process.
Former Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn late last year proposed making permanent a "temporary" income tax increase, but the legislature refused to go along, so the tax reverted to 3.75percentt on Jan 1.
