Charles Fried Quotes (7 Quotes)

It is really a euphemism for asking the man, 'how are you going to decide particular cases that I care about It is a kind of smoke screen for asking that question.

If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.

I think in many respects, his hold on his court in the last few years has begun to slip away.

These may indicate an inability to think lucidly and deeply about legal questions and express her thoughts in clear, pointed, understandable prose, ... A justice without those capabilities -- however generally intelligent, decent and hardworking -- risks being a calamity for the court, the law, and the country.

He's obviously a conservative man but in disposition, not in some kind of ideological way.

It's a big tree, but it has ramified and exfoliated, ... would be an enormous disruption.

The profession is designed to help the court by making sure that the best possible arguments - not misleading arguments, not arguments that stretch a point, not arguments that hide precedents - but that the best possible arguments are presented, ... That's the business we're in. It's very much like if you were a doctor. Do you only cure people who, when they're cured, will lead their lives as you were going to lead them