{"id":184320,"date":"2024-11-10T13:33:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T11:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-supreme-court-justice-denies-koffas-plea\/"},"modified":"2024-11-10T13:33:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T11:33:38","slug":"liberia-supreme-court-justice-denies-koffas-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-supreme-court-justice-denies-koffas-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Supreme Court Justice Denies Koffa&#8217;s Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>&#8212; Embattled Speaker now runs to Full Bench<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The embattled House Speaker Cllr. Fonati Koffa suffered a devastating political blow in his fight to hold on to power, when the Supreme Court&#8217;s Chamber Justice Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay declined to interfere with his removal by the majority lawmakers referring to themselves as &#8220;majority bloc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaker Koffa had earlier sought Gbeisay&#8217;s intervention through a Writ of Probation, seeking a stay order against the majority bloc&#8217;s stance to remove him in violation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411080110.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Embattled Speaker now runs to Full Bench The embattled House Speaker Cllr. Fonati Koffa suffered a devastating political blow in his fight to hold on to power, when the Supreme Court&#8217;s Chamber Justice Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay declined to interfere with his removal by the majority lawmakers referring to themselves as &#8220;majority bloc.&#8221; Speaker Koffa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6185,7651,6852,47323,4712,1107,257,11062,254,9498],"class_list":["post-184320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-denies","tag-justice","tag-koffas","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-plea","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}