Legal experts predicted that the lawsuit would be unable to stop publication.
"That would be a prior restraint. While the government might be able to prosecute Bolton after the fact if he released truly classified materials, every time the government has tried to prevent someone from publishing what they believe to be classified, they have lost," says Rasch, now with Kohrman, Jackson, and Krantz, a Cleveland based law firm.
The lawsuit, filed by the Justice Department's Civil Division, said Bolton began the review process as required but lost patience as the process dragged on month after month. But it contained many references to classified information, including at the top-secret level, it said. Ben Wizner of the American Civil Liberties Union said the lawsuit was doomed to fail. "As usual, the government's threats have nothing to do with safeguarding national security, and everything to do with avoiding scandal and embarrassment."in September 2019, but Bolton and his unpublished book were in the middle of a political maelstrom earlier this year when Democrats demanded his testimony in Trump's impeachment trial.
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