Soror Laura Coates is CNN’s chief legal analyst and anchor, a promotion which led her to become the first African American woman to hold this position. This role underscores her expertise in legal affairs and her significant contribution to the network’s legal coverage. She plays a central role in the network’s extensive legal programming and fills in as an anchor across CNN programming, including hosting prime time programs, impactful specials, and a CNN Town Hall. She is also the host of the award-winning daily, “The Laura Coates Show,” on SiriusXM’s bipartisan P.O.T.U.S. channel where she interviews world leaders and politicians from both sides of the aisle and engages the audience with a lively discussion at the intersection of politics and the law.
She is the New York Times bestselling author of Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight For Fairness. In 2016, recognizing the dire need for increased police accountability and improved police-community relations, Soror Coates wrote the bestselling book You Have the Right: A Constitutional Guide to Policing the Police.
She is a well-respected constitutional expert, attorney, commentator, author, and former adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law. Her depth of experience and broad expertise has earned her acclaim across all media platforms for her objective, nonpartisan legal analysis.