Reagan Solicitor General, Charles Fried, critical of conservative activist SCOTUS
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Charles Fried is a professor of law at Harvard University. From 1985 to 1989, he served as President Ronald Reagan’s solicitor general. He specializes in constitutional law and is the author of many books on the subject, including 2004’s “Saying What the Law Is: The Constitution in the Supreme Court.” He also wrote a brief on behalf of 104 law professors arguing that the individual mandate is constitutional.

Professor Fried spoke to Greg Sargent after three days of oral argument on the Affordable Care Act and was highly critical of the conservative activist Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. How did legal observers and Obamacare backers get it so wrong? - The Plum Line:

<F>ormer Reagan Solicitor General Charles Fried was scaldingly critical of the willingness of the conservative bloc of Supreme Court justices to traffic in some of the most well-worn Tea Party tropes about Obamacare.

[font color="red"]“I was appalled to see that at least a couple of them were repeating the most tendentious of the Tea Party type arguments,”[/font] Fried said. [font color="red"] “I even heard about broccoli. The whole broccoli argument is beneath contempt. To hear it come from the bench was depressing.”[/font]