Ethics

Latest Obamacon: Charles Fried

By Ed Brayton

Doug Kmiec is not the only former Reagan Justice Department attorney endorsing Obama; he has now been joined by Charles Fried. This is even bigger news than Kmiec. Fried is easily among the half dozen most respected conservative legal scholars in the country. He was Solicitor General under Reagan and has long been a professor at Harvard Law School. If you were to make a list of the most important conservative legal scholars in academia, I have a hard time imagining a name at the top of the list other than Fried. And that respect crosses party lines. Fried is about as big as it gets in conservative legal circles. In fact, he was on several committees on legal issues for the McCain campaign and had enthusiastically endorsed McCain earlier this year. Guess what changed his mind:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 27, 2008 (boomark / email).