Dershowitz on Manafort: Anti-Trump Civil Libertarians Are Forgetting About Civil Liberties

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DERSHOWITZ: "They can take away his telephone, they can have all kinds of restrictions. But the idea of putting somebody in jail before they’ve been convicted is an anathema to civil liberties. Except today, anti-Trump civil libertarians are forgetting about civil liberties. The ACLU is not doing a thing to protect the civil liberties of Americans. We have to remember the presumption of innocence. Manafort walks into court as innocent as any of us. The idea that he should be locked up because the government alleges he’s done something without having to prove anything is really a very, very dangerous thing whether it’s done to Republicans or Democrats. And as a civil libertarian, I’m going to continue to speak up to civil liberties of people I disagree with, people I agree with. And I wish the ACLU were back in the game, but now the ACLU is supporting candidates running for office, they’re taking partisan views, they are dead in the water when it comes to protecting the civil liberties of Americans. That’s why I and others like me have to be out there making the case for civil liberties on a nonpartisan basis."