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Sitting to the right of Tribe was Charles Fried, the Beneficial professor of law at Harvard and the former solicitor general under President Reagan. While in that post, Fried briefly served as Alito’s boss. In his testimony, Fried said that he did not believe Alito would launch a frontal assault on Roe v. Wade. But, he twice repeated: “I could be quite wrong...
Fried also defended Alito’s writings in the solicitor general’s office, which have come under scrutiny for his remarks on abortion and the executive branch...
Fried addressed Alito’s application to serve in the solicitor general’s office, which lists a number of conservative affiliations that have riled Democrats. Fried said that “in 1985, [Alito] wanted a job in the administration, and at that point he took on a different role and he spoke in a different tone of voice...
Fried wrote in the Times last week that Alito’s final recommendation was particularly noteworthy because several high-ranking Reagan officials had pressured the solicitor general’s office to directly attack the Roe ruling...
...solicitor general is the lawyer who represents the federal government in Supreme Court cases. When Fried assumed that post in 1985, Alito was a junior lawyer in the solicitor general’s office. Alito left the office late that year to take a higher-ranking Justice Department post...