The government failed to obtain a prior restraint on the former Trump official's tell-all, 'The Room Where It Happened.'
With shades of historic First Amendment court battles from decades past and high stakes given the country is in the midst of a presidential election year, a D.C. federal judge refused to halt the imminent release of John Bolton's. At the conclusion of a Friday hearing, he took the matter under submission. On Saturday, the judge made it official: A restraining order wouldn't be granted.
U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth, who had quickly consented to a virtual hearing to entertain the motion for a restraining order, also had to wrestle with the question of whether the government could really show imminent harm given how the book's eyewitness account of Trump's fumbling and arguably corrupt dealings with foreign leaders had already reached the public sphere.
Later, Bolton's lawyer Charles Cooper argued Lamberth is "utterly powerless" to do anything and this isn't really a judicial proceeding. "It's theater," he said. "It's to use your courtroom as a stage and enlist you as a player."
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