Nominee for Manhattan U.S. Attorney: A nonpartisan star

When President Barack Obama nominated Preetinder S. Bharara last week to become the new U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan, there was some cheap-shot snickering about a purported irony. Bharara, as Senator Charles Schumer’s chief counsel, had spearheaded the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation into former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s politicization of the U.S. Department of Justice, and particularly the firing of nine U.S. attorneys. Now, some people said, he was receiving his own political reward, being picked to head the most illustrious federal prosecutor¹s office in the nation.

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