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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...
Fried said he believed Alito would instead submit decisions that fall “in the reasonable tradition” of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a 1992 case in which the Supreme Court struck down state laws that it said imposed an “undue burden” on...
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.
“The Reagan administration no doubt had a point of view about the law, just as did the FDR administration in 1933, or the JFK administration in 1961,” Fried said. “That is not unusual. That’s what elections are about...
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...