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Fried is expected to be officially appointed to the court this month.
"We feel he represents a huge threat to the people of Massachusetts," said Lester P. Lee Jr., co-chair of the Anti-Fried Coalition: The Committee for a Just Supreme Court. "He is an extremely conservative man who throughout most of his career has worked against tenant rights, civil rights...
Other groups such as the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), the Women's Bar Association and the Cambridge Tenants Union also opposed Fried's confirmation.
But this anti-Fried sentiment was no longer an issue after Jordan Levy (D-Worcester) cast the final vote in Fried's favor to assure his confirmation.
"Charles Fried does not have horns and a long green tail," Levy told the Boston Globe. "He's not a rapist, murderer or pedophile."