For Morsi, the dilemma was that the Constitutional Court could strike down the law, rendering the effort meaningless. He had already backed off twice: once in July 2012, when he abandoned his effort, under pressure from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, to reinstate the elected parliament; and once when he tried to remove the public prosecutor by making him Egypt’s ambassador to the Holy See.
对穆尔西来说，困难在于宪法法院可以宣布法律无效，让其努力泡汤。他已经两次遭遇阻击：一次是2012年7月，他在武装部队最高委员会的压力下放弃了恢复民选议会的努力；另一次是他试图通过任命公诉官为埃及驻罗马教廷大使解除其职务时。