Geoffrey Stone
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Geoffrey Stone is a law professor and former dean who has engaged deeply with constitutional law and civil liberties. This interview reveals his commitment to safeguarding individual rights while navigating the complexities of legal interpretations and societal values.
“Well, I think Justice Roberts gets more credit than he deserves on these lines, frankly. I think people look at the Affordable Care Act decision and say, see, this is what he does. But this is not what he does.”
“From Russia. And my father's family name was not Stone, it was Zagovsky. They changed it when he, the youngest of three brothers, turned twenty one to assimilate better. And my grandfather on one side was a boxer and then a cab driver and then worked on the railroad, New York Central Railroad.”
“Obama come and be a fellow in the law government program, give him a chance to spend some time at the law school, give us a chance to get to know him. And so he came out, I interviewed him, was very impressed. He was very poised. He was very impressive.”
“Some percentage of them will go out and do bad things. And that was a very troubling risk with respect to Guantanamo. And I think there were some members of the group who felt that Obama was being overly cautious about the recidivism risk, the risk that some of these people, if released, would go out and commit additional terrorist acts.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 154 - Geoffrey Stone
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