This is an admirable trait in an activist, an ideologue, a crusader for a cause!
This is a damnable trait in a Judge.
A Judge is bound by the law, now what they really really really want the law to be; but the law as it IS.
“A Judge is bound by the law, not what they really really really want the law to be; but the law as it IS.”
How old fashioned of you...
Actually, the law is whatever the jury says it is, though judges will throw you off the case if you were to be silly enough to say that during jury selection.