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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

The California provision states that kidnapping involves someone who “abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state.” The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Leondra Kruger

SCOTUSBlog

Her mother hails from Jamaica, while her late father was the son of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. Kruger left WilmerHale for the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught a class in transnational litigation as a visiting assistant professor. Early life and career. Following the U.S.

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