Bye, bye Morsi? 48 hour ultimatum from the generals

[Famous Mortimer]

If there are truly free elections, the Muslim Brotherhood will win again.

[Famous Mortimer]

What exactly were the complaints against Morsi?

From what I understand, there was a decree he made last year that protected the constituent assembly from judicial review.

How would judicial review even take place though? The Constituent Assembly is writing a new constitution. The Mubarak appointed courts were going to declare the new constitutional unconstitutional based on the old Mubarak era constitution? That actually does sound like something that it would be fair to try to avoid.

[Famous Mortimer]

If there are truly free elections, the Muslim Brotherhood will win again.

Again...

Top three finishers in the first round of Egypt's 2012 presidential election:

Morsi 25%
Shafik 24%
Sabahi 21%

And then in the runoff:

Morsi 52%
Shafik 48%

And that 52% in the runoff included the votes of many secular liberals who were afraid that a vote for Shafik meant a return to military rule and the days of Mubarak.  If they're more sympathetic with the military now, then I don't see how another Muslim Brotherhood candidate could win.  You might still have someone with Islamist leanings, but someone backed by the MB itself seems unlikely.

In the parliamentary elections, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists won almost 2/3rds.

[Famous Mortimer]

Apparently the Nour Party backed the coup and they have enough influence with the new regime that they were able to block the appointment of ElBaradei as PM.

WTF?

[Famous Mortimer]

The Nour Party has suspended its support for the government as a result.

The Grand Imam of al-Azhar, who the media keeps calling the highest authority in Egyptian Islam (which I kind of doubt since he's a liberal Sufi appointed by Mubarak) has said he is going to refrain for speaking about politics until the violence is over. He was one of that people at the coup press conference alongside ElBaradei and the Coptic Pope.