nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/2f7e652ef296cbd0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260907s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/2f7e652ef296cbd0 doi eng 342 23 Moreno, Carlos Author aut America’s Right to Kidnap - What Alvarez-Machain Tells Us About Legal Dualism at the Border of Sovereignty Moreno, Carlos Verfassungsblog 2026-09-07 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On September 3, 2026, lawyers for Nicolás Maduro filed a motion asking a federal judge in Manhattan to dismiss the narco-terrorism indictment against him, arguing that a sitting head of state enjoys absolute immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of any court but his own. Yet the doctrinal groundwork for treating a foreign leader’s forcible removal as jurisdictionally unproblematic had already been laid, more than three decades earlier, in a case about a Mexican physician most people have never heard of. CC BY-SA 4.0 Alvarez-Machain but United States v. Noriega Immunity Jurisdiction Ker v. Illinois Nicolás Maduro USA extradiction (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd USA Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/americas-right-to-kidnap/ raw object