Ex-federal prosecutor predicts court won't side with Trump on congressional subpoenas

A former federal prosecutor predicted in a column for Politico the White House will continue to lose in court showdowns over House subpoenas.

In the Sunday column, Renato Mariotti, who worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois, noted that Judge Amit Mehta, in a ruling last week rejecting President Trump's challenge to a House Oversight Committee subpoena of financial records, overruled Trump's claim that Congress could not request such material because it would be "law enforcement" rather than "legislation."

Arguing against Congress' investigative authority, Mariotti writes, is "doomed to failure," also citing a Wednesday ruling by Judge Edgardo Ramos relating to Trump's financial records that it was "not the role of the judicial branch to question [Congress'] motives."

"If Trump continues down this path - over former White House counsel Don McGahn's refusal to appear before the House Judiciary, for example - expect to see more swift rulings swatting down his legal arguments in the coming weeks and months," Mariotti wrote. "No court is going to rule that the executive branch can categorically refuse to produce evidence and witnesses from a criminal investigation of the president of the United States to the House of Representatives."

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He'll stomp and pout and say they're all a bunch of liberal judges.