A Shadow Across Our Democracy
The fate of our democracy may very well hang on the vote of Justice Kennedy’s replacement. If a newly constituted Supreme Court were to overrule...
Author
Charles Fried
Charles Fried is the Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has been teaching since 1961. He was also the Solicitor General of the United States from 1985 to 1989, where he argued 25 cases in front of the Supreme Court. Fried was also an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts from 1995 to 1999. Fried has authored many books, including Anatomy of Values, Right and Wrong, Modern Liberty, Contract as Promise, Making Tort Law, and Saying Where the Law Is: The Constitution in the Supreme Court, in addition to more than 30 journal articles.
Not Conservative
The press and the rest of the commentariat have fallen into the habit of referring to the work of Chief Justice Roberts and Justices...