Tagged: constitution   Stanford Law Review Online: Politicizing
the Supreme Court  Stanford Law Review    He concludes:     The
Military-Judiciary Nexus – Egypt and Beyond  The deputy
president of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court, Tahani el-
Gebali, disclosed that she had advised Egypt’s ruling generals
how not to cede authority to the first freely elected
Parliament. The Court then issued a decision that opened the
door for the military to resolve the elected body and to usurp
the constitution drafting process.  The still-unfolding
military-judiciary concert in Egypt to decline transfer of power
to elected civilians has infamous precedence in other polities,
particularly Pakistan.  In 1958, Pakistan’s Supreme Court upheld
the validity of the country’s the first coup d’etat. The
decision, drafted by Chief Justice Mohammad Munir, used Kelsen’s
theory of revolutionary legality to hold that a successful
revolution becomes a law-creating fact whose legality is judged
not by the annulled constitution but its ow