Why the controversy surrounding Judge Bork 's nomination to the Supreme Court ? Is it because he makes " neutral - principled " decisions based on established law irrespective of who may win or lose ? He believes in judicial restraint , sticking with legal principles rather than what is " good " or " moral " or " right " within current governments ' social , economic or criminal - justice agendas . Two hundred years ago in Philadelphia, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention considered a proposal to join executive and judicial authority in a "council of revision" - a body that would have authority to reject and reshape laws enacted by the legislature. He says the job of a judge is to protect the principle that the framers were trying to protect and apply that principle in today 's circumstances , always protecting the value or the freedom that the framers were trying to protect --- and not some new freedom .
Why the controversy surrounding Judge Bork 's nomination to the Supreme Court ? Is it because he makes " neutral - principled " decisions based on established law irrespective of who may win or lose ? He believes in judicial restraint , sticking with legal principles rather than what is " good " or " moral " or " right " within current governments ' social , economic or criminal - justice agendas . He says the job of a judge is to protect the principle that the framers were trying to protect and apply that principle in today 's circumstances , always protecting the value or the freedom that the framers were trying to protect --- and not some new freedom .