Two days after President Mohamed Morsi reinstated the Egyptian parliament — and one day after the Supreme Court subsequently reaffirmed its original decision that the legislative body must disband — lawmakers gathered on Tuesday for the first time since the court’s original ruling. The court’s decision is backed up by the Egyptian military, which ran the country after the fall of Hosni Mubarak last year.
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