That’s the poiht, it’s from the country, from the government and different sides of the government are arguing it. One side wants it and one side doesn’t.
First, you wrote about ‘the country’ as if it’s a monolith. Second, working out what you mean more precisely is hard when you fail to give even the slightest explanation of why it’s the judiciary specifically that wants to preserve the status quo.
It isn’t odd, it’s politics.