The judiciary is quietly the most powerful branch of government, and somehow escapes blame for any problems in government and culture even though much of what is considered acceptable today hinged on several milestone cases and the decisions of individual judges throughout the years. We now have a hundred years of precedents leading to a more "progressive" society. Judges are obligated to follow precedent most of the time. The most powerful are unelected and difficult to replace.

Even if we have a revolution, they probably won't redo the court system so it will all be pointless. This is one of the problems in South America and why right-wing regimes fail to "stick" without authoritarianism.