Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt

The Supreme Constitutional Court (Arabic المحكمة الدستورية العليا, DMG al - Mahkama ad Dustūrīya al - ʿ Ulyā ) is a judicial institution of the Republic of Egypt. Chairman of the Constitutional Court since July 2013, the current Egyptian interim president Adly Mansour. The former President Mohammed Mursi was deposed by a military coup in July 2013. The text drafted by the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists new constitution reduced the position of the court and instead gave religious groups such as Al-Azhar University more decision-making power in the control of laws.

The seat of the Supreme Constitutional Court Maadi, a suburb of the capital, Cairo. The High Court was set up in 1979 in the wake of the democratization of the country by President Anwar al-Sadat, replacing the Supreme Court, which was ten years earlier introduced by Gamal Abdel Nasser.

In 2003, President Hosni Mubarak appointed the Judge Tahani al - Gebali, Vice-President of the Constitutional Court; she is the first woman to receive the item. After the nationwide roll-over from 2010, the Constitutional Court has received many threats from religious groups such as the Islamist Freedom and Justice Party. At the protests in December 2012, the building of the Court of party supporters was surrounded, the judges were prevented from doing their work. The Muslim Brotherhood threatened the Constitutional Court even with its abolition.