I kind of admire the balls on Paul Manafort. He is asking a judge to dismiss the 5 criminal charges against him, not because he’s innocent, but because Manafort thinks Mueller shouldn’t have been allowed to catch him if he was focusing on the Russia investigation. This despite the fact that he acknowledges that Mueller’s mandate was widespread and gave him prosecutorial power over anything he uncovered in the search of collusion. Now, admittedly, I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t know how much sway that argument is going to have in court.