AP/ MIAMI HERALD/ Hundreds of leftist President Daniel Ortega's supporters, urged on by two Supreme Court Justices, threw rocks and fireworks at a hotel where opposition lawmakers were meeting to overturn a decree extending the judges' terms. A politicized Supreme Court has overruled constitutional term limits, allowing the Ortega to run for another consecutive term. The Liberal Party has called Ortega's decree "a coup against the country's governmental institutions. The president does not have the authority to name justices," said a party statement. "The legislature does."
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