Court refuses to issue an injunction against the publication of Bolton’s book
courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Court says that Bolton was wrong to publish without letting the government complete its review of his book. 
But declines to issue an injunction, saying that “the horse is not just out of the barn—it is out of the country.”
Will be very interesting to see if the government appeals. It would be futile, but the request for an injunction has been futile from the start.
Meanwhile, Bolton has won the battle over publication, but the court has all but decided that it will rule for the government when it asks for the proceeds from the book.
That said, the court didn’t address Bolton’s troubling allegations that the WH abused prepublication review to silence him.
However you feel about Bolton, you should be troubled by the broad power that prepublication review invests in the gov’t to silence its critics.
However you feel about Bolton, you should be troubled by the broad power that prepublication review invests in the gov’t to silence its critics.
