A former federal prosecutor predicts that the court will not be on Trump's side when appearing in Congress

A former federal prosecutor predicted in a column of Politico that the White House would continue to lose in the face of court summons.

In Sunday's column, Renato Mariotti, who worked at the US Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Illinois, pointed out that in a ruling last week, dismissing President TrumpDonald John TrumpPapadopoulos about AG's new powers: "Trump is now on the offensive" Pelosi uses Trump to his advantage Mike Pence delivers West Point's opening speech NEXTJudge Amit Mehta challenged Trump's argument that Congress could not request such documents because it was "law enforcement" rather than "legislation".

Mariotti wrote that pleading against the congressional investigative authority was "doomed to failure". He also cited a decision by Judge Edgardo Ramos on Trump's financial statements on Wednesday, in which Ramos said that "it was not the role of the judiciary to question [Congress’s] reasons. "

"If Trump continues in this direction, for example after the refusal of former White House lawyer Don McGahn, to wait to see more and more decisions render his legal arguments in vain during weeks and months ahead, "wrote Mariotti. "No court will decide that the executive can categorically refuse to produce evidence and witnesses from a criminal investigation by the president of the United States in the House of Representatives."

Mariotti wrote that Trump's legal strategy "does not only generate adverse results quickly, but could very well convince a court that it acts in bad faith".

If legal battles continue in this direction, he wrote, the courts could impose subpoenas such as the Congress itself is not in a position to do logistically, which could expedite investigations or even indictment procedures.