For the first time in Egypt’s post-revolutionary political scene, the Muslim Brotherhood‘s ascendancy is under serious threat. But as a diverse array of political players challenges the Islamist movement‘s efforts to centralize power, the Brothers are showing no sign of backing down.

The trouble began last week, when President Mohamed Morsy issued a package of sovereign decrees that sacked the nation’s prosecutor general, appointed a new one with a mandate to re-open cases against deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak and his inner circle, and — most importantly — declared both his own decisions and the assembly drafting the country’s new constitution immune from judicial oversight. As scholar Nathan Brown put it, Morsy’s edict amounted to a declaration that he was “all powerful … just for a little while.”

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