Judge Denies Trump Administration’s Bid to Immediately Block Bolton Book

Then-national security adviser John Bolton in a press conference at the White House on Aug. 2, 2018. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

A federal court judge has denied the Trump administration’s request to immediately block the publication of a book by former national security adviser John Bolton.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth denied the Justice Department’s emergency request for a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction on June 20, saying that the government hadn’t demonstrated that an injunction is an appropriate remedy. The order allows Bolton to proceed in the dissemination of his book titled “The Room Where It Happened.”