Egyptian court rulings on the electoral processes in post-Mubarak Egypt were perceived by Muslim Brotherhood supporters as hostile to the new power in place and led to accusations of collusion by magistrates with the army and former Mubarak regime. That article seeks to recall, on the one hand, that this instrumentalisation of the policy is not new and that it had been carried out against the Mubarak regime and, on the other hand, to show that the controversial decisions of the Constitutional Court are in line with its case-law. He wondered about the status of magistrates as an actor or victim in this process of politicising the judiciary.