Because what was done to Manafort was unconscionable and should never, ever be allowed to happen in America.
The 8th Amendment does not grant you the right to bail. But, it does protect you from *excessive* bail.
$10 million for white collar crimes was not reasonable under the circumstances. With the Fake News dogging every move he made, at what point did he become a serious flight risk?
An ankle bracelet would have gotten the job done just fine.
But, wait. It gets worse. Mueller arranges for the man accused of crimes in which no violence of any kind is alleged, to be thrown into solitary for 23 hours per day.
He was not permitted access to a radio, TV, or reading material, not so much as a newspaper. How long could you live like that before going completely mad?
Mueller’s intent was clear enough. Keep the pressure on Manafort until he coughs up something useful about Trump, real or imaginary.
Nobody is suggesting that Manafort is a good guy. But, he is not menacing the rest of us. He and his attorneys were fully cooperating with the prosecutor’s office. They produced everything that was requested. There was no need for the kind of raid on his home normally reserved for people who would actually shoot a cop.
If we’re going to start tossing people into solitary for failing to register as a foreign lobbyist, we’ll need a hell of a lot more prisons. Half of K Street will be in the Hole.
Manafort was used as a political prisoner and that should not be tolerated in this country.
Manafort has some INCOMPETENT lawyers....or else they were Democrat operatives!!!