Reflections of a Black Prosecutor (with Laura Coates)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Government, Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Might Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema switch parties? What are the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the January 6 Committee to obtain certain Trump White House documents? Preet answers listener questions. Then, Preet interviews Laura Coates, Senior Legal Analyst and anchor at CNN. They discuss Coates’ new book Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight For Fairness, the struggle to strengthen voting rights in America, and the time when Alex Trebek, the late former host of Jeopardy publicly suggested that she should be a top candidate to succeed him. For show notes and a transcript of the episode, head to: cafe.com/stay-tuned/reflections-of-a-black-prosecutor Don’t miss the Insider Bonus, where Preet asks Coates a series of lightning round questions: Tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio Producer: Nat Weiner; Editorial Producers: Noa Azulai, Sam Ozer-Staton, and David Kurlander. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to Stay Tuned.
0:06.0	I'm Pete Barara.
0:08.0	We know that there is not a monopoly on crime, but when you see the parade of thousands over
0:15.0	the course of years of black and brown people coming into the courtroom as defendants and as victims as well,
0:21.0	you wonder, you look around, where are the white people?
0:30.0	That's Laura Coates.
0:32.0	She is a senior legal analyst and anchor at CNN, where we are colleagues.
0:36.0	She's also a former federal prosecutor and a trial attorney who served in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.
0:42.0	Her new book is Just Pursuit, a black prosecutor's fight for fairness.
0:47.0	It pulls back the curtain on her time at DOJ, where she navigated the inner tensions of enforcing the law in a system struggling to overcome
0:55.0	pervasive problems with racism.
0:57.0	We discuss a range of moral and ethical dilemmas that arise in the pursuit of justice, the state of voting rights in America,
1:04.0	and how the late host of Jeopardy Alex Trebek once suggested her as his potential successor.
1:10.0	That's coming up.
1:12.0	Stay tuned.
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2:14.0	Hey folks, some of you may have heard the news that my new children's book is now out.
2:22.0	It's called Justice Is.
2:24.0	The book is a kind of guide for young truth seekers.
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