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...judicial restraint: People on both sides are painting me as a conservative activist, predicting I'll do revolting or admirable things. It's not true. I simply believe in judicial restraint. An activist is somebody who tries to run his own preferences into the law. I either don't have them, or I keep them...
...advocate of judicial restraint, Bork has not been terribly successful at exercising personal discipline in recent years. He regularly smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, despite promises to himself to quit. After breaking his arm in an accident on icy steps outside his home two years ago, he began losing control of his now Falstaffian weight. A series of exercise machines -- a rowing machine, cross-country machine, stationary bicycle -- sit broken or largely unused in his attic. Bork has taken up poker in a floating game that regularly includes Scalia, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Education Secretary William Bennett...
...professor, who is as amiable in person as he is controversial in his concepts, will begin three days of intensive grilling by the 14 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bork and his supporters will argue that he is a fair, open-minded, brilliant jurist whose philosophy of judicial restraint represents a reasonable antidote to 30 years of excessive social activism by the court. His foes, led by Chairman Joseph Biden, will seek to show that he is a right-wing radical whose opinions and writings reveal a reading of the Constitution so constricted as to threaten basic principles...
Bork's strongest defense, appropriately, came from the White House. In his television address, Reagan cited Bork's confirmation as his first goal for the remainder of his presidency. Bork's nomination, said the President, "is being opposed by some because he practices judicial restraint. That means he won't put their opinions ahead of the law; he won't put his own opinions ahead of the law. And that's the way it should...
...Public Citizen Litigation Group, an organization founded by Nader, released a report undermining the idea that Bork practices judicial restraint. "In divisive cases, you can predict Bork's vote with virtual complete accuracy, simply by identifying the parties in the case," charges Alan Morrison, head of the Litigation Group. Reviewing the judge's appeals-court votes in 56 split decisions, the Litigation Group said that Bork consistently found for the Government when it was sued by public-interest groups, consumers or workers. But in eight decisions in which business interests challenged the Executive Branch on regulatory or labor issues, Bork...