Second is a recognition of the limits of the judicial role, an understanding that a judge's job is to interpret, not make law, to approach decisions without any particular ideology or agenda, but rather a commitment to impartial justice, a respect for precedent, and a determination to faithfully apply the law to the facts at hand.
Too often, he complains, the court's judges, using techniques of a now antiquated common law tradition, have made new law, when their proper role is to interpret the constitution.