{"id":196629,"date":"2025-04-23T18:19:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-supreme-nullifies-majority-bloc-actions-richard-koons-efforts-ruled-unconstitutional-in-landmark-rebuke-of-legislative-overreach\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T18:19:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:19:48","slug":"liberia-supreme-nullifies-majority-bloc-actions-richard-koons-efforts-ruled-unconstitutional-in-landmark-rebuke-of-legislative-overreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-supreme-nullifies-majority-bloc-actions-richard-koons-efforts-ruled-unconstitutional-in-landmark-rebuke-of-legislative-overreach\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Supreme Nullifies Majority Bloc Actions, Richard Koon&#8217;s Efforts Ruled Unconstitutional in Landmark Rebuke of Legislative Overreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"75\">Monrovia \u2014 Monrovia \u2013 The Supreme Court of Liberia has delivered a decisive ruling in the ongoing power struggle between the House of Representatives\u2019 self-declared Majority Bloc and embattled Speaker J. Fonati Koffa, declaring the group\u2019s actions unconstitutional and effectively ending Representative Richard N. Koon\u2019s controversial campaign to unseat the Speaker.In its final judgment, the Court described the Bloc\u2019s actions as a \u201cflagrant disregard for constitutional order\u201d and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504230516.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Monrovia \u2014 Monrovia \u2013 The Supreme Court of Liberia has delivered a decisive ruling in the ongoing power struggle between the House of Representatives\u2019 self-declared Majority Bloc and embattled Speaker J. Fonati Koffa, declaring the group\u2019s actions unconstitutional and effectively ending Representative Richard N. Koon\u2019s controversial campaign to unseat the Speaker.In its final judgment, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[10838,258,256,15414,6357,51194,12583,7579,4712,1107,7334,257,21034,51195,18721,27626,4299,254,9498,11723],"class_list":["post-196629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-actions","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bloc","tag-efforts","tag-koons","tag-landmark","tag-legislative","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-majority","tag-news","tag-nullifies","tag-overreach","tag-rebuke","tag-richard","tag-ruled","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme","tag-unconstitutional"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/196629","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=196629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}