Egypt: Resignations Continue

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/world/middleeast/resignations-continue-in-egypt.html

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President Mohamed Morsi faced a mounting revolt against Islamist attempts to force out thousands of judges when his own legal adviser quit on Tuesday, three days after the justice minister offered his resignation. The furor revolves around a bill to overhaul the judiciary that would force the retirement of more than 3,000 judges. Members of the secular and liberal opposition have condemned a draft law that would impose mandatory retirement on judges at 60 instead of 70, forcing out many senior judges who have angered the Islamists by annulling election laws and acquitting officials who served under the ousted president, Hosni Mubarak.