Preet Bharara (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
I was fired by the President of the United States. People like to ask me about the state of the law and ask about the state of our democratic institutions and what it’s like for the judiciary, for example. I say, well, if you’re you’re a judge and you piss off the president, you keep your life tenure, and if you’re a U.S. attorney and you piss off the president, you get a podcast.
— Preet Bharara, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaking about his podcast, Stay Tuned With Preet, during a TimesTalks event hosted last night, featuring Bharara alongside author John Grisham, who spoke about his upcoming legal thriller, “The Guardians,” which focuses on group of lawyers whose mission is to exonerate the wrongfully convicted.
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