lester freedman asked:
why wasn't yehuda bar nachmaini afraid to make such a statement in public, which would probably anger the nasi's office and the new dayan?
lester freedman, miami,florida
The Kollel replies:
Though I have not found an explicit answer, it could be that the answer is alluded to by the Gemara itself when it says that Yehudah was "Meturgamanei d'Reish Lakish." Reish Lakish was physically very powerful (even after he became a Talmid Chacham), and might have also been too much of a well known personality to take away his known Meturgaman.
All the best,
Yaakov Montrose