Out in the real world, if you are not productively employed doing something generally you aren't getting paid a nickel. If you have only worked for the U.S. government and are not familiar with that potentially unpleasant but very real concept, I understand. And yes, to many of us, the U.S. Constitution matters a great deal.
Here's out it works on the other side of the aisle. He is sitting in a cell, under arrest, not doing a single productive thing for his employer (The United States). He isn't "earning" a thing, so we shouldn't be paying him - simple. He is not performing any of his duties and he certainly was not incapacitated in the performance of his duties. By any reasonable standard The United States doesn't/shouldn't owe him a penny. (If by some miracle he is found innocent, he could always be entitled to collect his back-pay with reasonable interest.)
Until this kind of craziness is stopped and set right the U.S. will continue on its present downward spiral toward being the world's largest banana republic. At that time, we won't need our Constitution any longer.
