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 In an emergency meeting on Saturday, the council urged Morsi "to distance this decree from everything that violates the judicial authority". 
 
 Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel-Hamid, reporting from Cairo, said that the Judges' Club has also voiced its anger at the decree. 
 
 "With the president giving himself the right to issue decrees or rules that are binding and can not be appealed, they're saying that never in the history of modern Egypt has there been a president who gave himself so many powers," said Abdel-Hamid. 
 
 A Cairo protester's sign reads: "Go away Morsi, Egypt is too big for you. People want the fall of the regime" [Reuters] 
 
 Morsi's constitutional decree does say that these powers are temporary and in effect until a new constitution is written, gone to referendum and a new parliament is voted in. 
 
 "However, the judges say...what is the guarantee that it is for a temporary amount of time. They say you can not have a president who is accountable to no one," said our correspondent. 
 
 Morsi's announcement on Thursday sparked large protests across Egypt on Friday. Minor clashes broke out on Saturday when demonstrators on Mohamed Mahmoud Street near Tahrir Square threw rocks at security forces, who fired back with tear gas. 
 
 Insisting upon the need to root out what he called "weevils eating away at the nation of Egypt", Morsi said on Friday: "I don't like, want or need to resort to exceptional measures, but I will if I see that my people, nation and the revolution of Egypt are in danger". 
 
 "I don't want to have all the powers...but if I see my nation in danger, I will do and I will act. I must," said Morsi, addressing hundreds of his supporters who rallied outside the presidential palace in Cairo. 
 
 Morsi - who has been buoyed by accolades recently for mediating a truce between Hamas and Israel - had ordered on Thursday that an assembly dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood writing the new constitution could not be dissolved by legal challenges. 
 
 Liberal and secular members earlier walked out of the body, charging it would impose strict Islamic practises. 
 
 His announcement led to clashes in several cities between supporters and opponents of Egypt's president, a clear show of the deepening polarisation plaguing the country. 
 
 One hundred wounded 
 
 In the largest rally on Friday, thousands of chanting protesters packed Cairo's Tahrir Square, the heart of the 2011 revolution, demanding Morsi quit and accusing him of launching a "coup". 
 
 Thousands of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square after opposition leaders called for a "million-man march" to protest against what they say is a coup by Morsi. 
 
 On Friday, protesters were calling for the fall of Morsi's government and the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood. 
 
 Among the protesters was Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. On Thursday, ElBaradei - who also participated in the 2011 protests - tweeted that Morsi had "appointed himself Egypt's new pharaoh". 
 
 A number of people camped out overnight in the square in what they say will be a one-week sit-in, and leftist and liberal parties have scheduled a march for Tuesday. 
 
 Protesters like Ahmed Moamen say they feel betrayed by Morsi. "I am not happy with actions of the Muslim Brotherhood and of Morsi," he told the Associated Press. "I am one of the people who voted for Morsi, but I am disappointed in him." 
 
 In Alexandria, Port Said and Suez, protests turned violent and at least 100 people were wounded in clashes between Morsi's supporters and opponents. 
 
 The headquarters of Morsi's Freedom and Justice Party headquarters in Alexandria was set on fire by protesters on Friday afternoon, with the party's offices have been attacked in five cities in total. 
 
 'Huge ramifications' 
 
 Morsi has also given himself sweeping powers that allowed him to sack the unpopular prosecutor general and opened the door for a retrial for Mubarak and his aides. 
 
 At a press conference on Saturday, Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud said that he is willing to go to court to disptue Moris's decision and warned "againt any attempt to disrupt the work of the judicial system". 
 
 Morsi's decree raises very serious human rights concerns, a spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay said on Friday. 
 
 "We are very concerned about the possible huge ramifications of this declaration on human rights and the rule of law in Egypt," Rupert Colville said at the UN in Geneva. 
 
 "We also fear this could lead to a very volatile situation over the next few days." 
 
 Hassan Nafaa, professor of political science at Cairo University, told Al Jazeera that Morsi "is erecting himself as an absolute monarch" because he did not consult the opposition on the decision. 
 
 "The problem is not about the content of the decisions itself, but about the way it was taken," he said. 
 
 US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Morsi's actions raise "concerns" for many Egyptians and the international community, and said the US urged "all Egyptians to resolve their differences over these important issues peacefully and through democratic dialogue". ||||| Egypt's most senior judges have condemned President Mohamed Morsi for granting himself sweeping new powers which they say amount to an "unprecedented assault" on the independence of the judiciary. 
 
 The supreme judicial council said work would be suspended in all courts and prosecution offices until the decree passed by the president earlier this week was reversed. 
 
 The announcement by the top judges, most of whom were appointed by former President Hosni Mubarak, came after tens of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets on Friday to protest against Morsi's decree. 
 
 The judicial body had previously urged the president on Thursday to "distance this decree from everything that violates the judicial authority". 
 
 The new edicts give the president near-absolute power and immunity from appeals in courts for any decisions or laws he declares until a new constitution and parliament is in place. 
 
 Opponents of the decree have called for a large-scale demonstration on Tuesday. In a second day of protests on the streets of Cairo on Saturday, activists threw rocks at riot police, while a few dozen people manned makeshift barricades to keep traffic out of Tahrir Square. 
 
 The decree has polarised opinion between the newly empowered Islamists, represented by Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, and their opponents. Leftwing and liberal parties have called for an open-ended sit-in aimed at "toppling" the decree. 
 
 "We are facing a historic moment in which we either complete our revolution or we abandon it to become prey for a group that has put its narrow party interests above the national interest," the liberal Constitution party said in a statement. 
 
 Anti-Morsi demonstrators, who accuse the president of having launched a "constitutional coup" on Thursday, were reported to have set fire to the offices of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party, to which Morsi belongs, in the Suez Canal cities of Suez and Port Said on Friday. 
 
 Clashes also erupted on Friday between the two sides in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, the southern city of Assiut and Giza, prompting Essam el-Erian, a leading figure in the FJP, to condemn the attacks as "acts of thuggery hiding behind political forces". While in Cairo, the two opposing camps gathered in large rival rallies. In a packed Tahrir Square, youths opposed to the decree fought intermittent battles with police firing volleys of teargas outside the French Lycée and American University. Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood meanwhile bussed in supporters from across the country to hear him address a rally outside the presidential palace in Heliopolis. 
 
 Morsi's decree orders the retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak, officials and security force members accused of killings during the country's revolution. Controversially, it also exempts all of Morsi's decisions from legal challenge until a new parliament is elected, as well as offering the same protection to the Islamist-dominated constituent assembly, which is drawing up the country's new constitution. 
 
 Morsi's aides said the presidential decree was to speed up a protracted democratic transition that has been hindered by legal obstacles. Morsi's rivals, however, were quick to condemn him as a new autocratic pharaoh who wanted to impose his Islamist vision on Egypt. 
 
 Morsi made the move in a week in which he had been buoyed by accolades from around the world for mediating a truce between Hamas and Israel. "I am for all Egyptians. I will not be biased against any son of Egypt," Morsi said on a stage outside the presidential palace, adding that he was working for social and economic stability and the rotation of power. "Opposition in Egypt does not worry me, but it has to be real and strong," he said in response to his critics.
– Mohamed Morsi's decision to significantly expand his own powers in Egypt is getting an emphatic condemnation from the nation's top judges, reports the Guardian. Morsi's decree putting his office above the courts until a constitution is written is an "unprecedented assault" on the judiciary, they wrote. The judges, many of whom were appointed by Hosni Mubarak, ordered work suspended in all courts until Morsi reverses himself. The judicial criticism comes a day after protests broke out against Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood party in Cairo's Tahrir Square as well in Alexandria and other cities, reports al-Jazeera. While those protests seem to have calmed down today, opponents called for a massive march to Tahrir Square on Tuesday, reports Reuters. Dealing with the protesters presents Morsi with his "toughest challenge" yet, says an analysis in Israel's Haaretz.