Charles Fried

Charles Fried is the Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He served as solicitor general during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, and was an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts from 1995 to 1999.

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A Day of Sorrow for American Democracy

The Supreme Court’s contorted reasoning in a gerrymandering case leaves a fundamental flaw in our constitutional democracy without hope of a judicial remedy.
- Charles Fried
- July 3, 2019