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Ash, whose constitutional challenge failed last July, expressed dissatisfaction with Fried's possible nomination. "When it comes to rent control many people are past reason," Ash said. "That he was in the Reagan administrator and was solicitor general of the U.S. is really scary."
But it is those same anti-rent control sentiments which have endeared city landlords to Fried, whom they see as one of their own.
Maddox said Fried could play an instrumental role on the SJC, by emphasizing property rights "as part of the panoply of individual rights and liberties."
As for the charges that Fried would not be an impartial jurist, Kabawat pointed out that Justice Ruth Abrams lived in a rent-controlled unit for nearly a decade prior to rent control's elimination. SJC justices earn more than $90,000 annually.
And Fried said the constitutional issues in the Ash case were very clear and should have invited no dispute.