CAIRO — Egypt’s Islamist president unilaterally decreed greater authority for himself Thursday and effectively neutralized a judicial system that had emerged as a key opponent by declaring courts are barred from challenging his decisions.
Riding high on US and international praise for mediating a Gaza cease-fire, Mohammed Morsi put himself above oversight and gave protection to the Islamist-led assembly that is writing a new constitution from a looming threat of dissolution by court order.

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The Administration's Propaganda, or the AP says "Riding high on US and international praise for mediating a Gaza cease-fire"..We are supposed to believe that allowing Egypt to be taken over by a NEW dictator, Morsi, whose Muslim Brotherhood will be worse than Mubarak's dictatorship, is somehhow an excellent move by the Obama Administration. And who are the people that are putting out "International Praise"? All of the anti-Israel, Hamas-loving Liberals, including those at the NY Times and the Boston Globe. Also praise is coming from Iran, who sees this as yet another opportunity to keep right on building nukes...Liberals will hate this, but Israel will be better off if Hamas soon violates the cease fire, as of course it always does, so that Israel can then go in and finish the job. ..And as noted in today's WSJ, Hamas will also hand off rocket firing duties to other groups such as Islamic Jihad to claim that they, Hamas are still keeping the truce. Such a move will be perfectly acceptable to NY Times and Globe writers.
another wannabe dictator and he doesn't like the USA only our money.
It's plain that the transition to democracy in Egypt has been pretty chaotic, full of stops and starts, changing players and changing schedules, and hampered by a judicial system filled with cronies from decades of dictatorship.
I can't read Mr. Morsi's mind, so I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt. Government by referendum does not work, and a strong hand is probably needed to guide this process. My preliminary judgment is that Morsi is more interested in a legacy than in power per se. He could become the historic founder of Egyptian democracy, and I think he's aware of that.
As long as Egypt continues toward democracy without undue delays, Morsi should have our support. We have to watch and wait.