Ted Johnson A federal judge did not say when he would decide whether to grant the Trump administration’s move to block the release of former national security adviser John Bolton’s new book, but he did recognize a reality: The Room Where It Happened is already out there.“The horse, as we used to say in Texas, seems to be out of the barn,” U.S.
District Judge Royce Lamberth in a videoconference hearing on Friday.Details of the book’s bombshell revelations about President Donald Trump already have been widely reported, as journalists obtained copies and an excerpt ran in The Wall Street Journal.
The Justice Department is seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to block the book’s release, but also wants the judge to.
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