U.S. v John Bolton Govt motion for preliminary injunction

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Washington Post

Crime & Law Context
U.S. v John Bolton Govt motion for preliminary injunction
Updated Jun 17, 2020 at 7:47 PM

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Note to forum hosts: I know this one breaks the rules. There's no story online yet. I was just about to log off, but I'll stay online for a while to see if something shows up. If you want to lock the thread, that's okay. The story is out, and that's what counts. This genie ain't going back in the bottle.

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Original links and excerpt:

Washington Post reporter Spencer Hsu

BREAKING U.S. files motion for emergency restraining order against John Bolton. His book, per @jdawsey1 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-asked-chinas-xi-to-help-him-win-reelection-according-to-bolton-book/2020/06/17/d4ea601c-ad7a-11ea-868b-93d63cd833b2_story.html ...

Link to tweet

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

Trump Files Restraining Order Against Bolton's Book
June 17, 2020

https://www.joemygod.com/2020/06/trump-files-restraining-order-against-boltons-book/

[drray23]

1. Too late suckers

its already been leaked. They won't be able to stop it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. If they stop this like they stopped us from STILL seeing Mueller, I say the country

needs to RISE UP and in a very serious way

[Amaryllis]

30. You mean like mass protests? Already happening. WHat do you suggest?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Cat's out of the bag already and won't be going back in.

Anyhow, that motion is gonna crash and burn because it's a prior restraint. Trump must have lazy lawyers that never read old cases like NY Times v. United States (the Pentagon Papers case).

[still_one]

22. Exactly what I was thinking, the Pentagon Papers

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Thanks for the link. I'll edit the OP now. NT

[irisblue]

8. I'll delete mine.

Geez. Those people

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. Nah, leave it up. The "article" is the .pdf of the court document.

There's still no article yet.

Thank you again.

[irisblue]

17. Oops

[mahatmakanejeeves]

18. Hat tip, irisblue. NT

[katmondoo]

4. The media all have copies of the book, how can they stop it now. I am laughing

at their stupidity.

[gab13by13]

39. Wolf Blitzer needs to give his copy to a journalist who can understand it.

[LizBeth]

5. Well, we see what Trump has been doing today. He is pissed the book is coming out. And out it is.

[Lonestarblue]

9. I don't want to give Bolton money, but I would consider buying his book

if it would help put it at the top of the bestseller list so Trump would blow a gasket.

[BarbD]

19. No need to spend your money, the press already has advance copies.

Bolton is a traitor plain and simple. Refusing to testify when it would have mattered, he elected to "tease" us and garner publicity for book sales. He belongs with the rest of the republican garbage.

[still_one]

24. I agree he should have testified, however, it wouldn't have mattered, the republicans

in the House and Senate have sold their souls to trump

[MontanaMama]

10. This dumbass lawsuit will only make

Bolton’s traitor report more interesting. Nobody should buy the POS. Boycott it.

[still_one]

25. The public will buy the book. The interesting part will be the republicans who buy it

though, and how many of them refuse to vote for trump because of it

[bucolic_frolic]

12. The guy who implored Russia to leak 30,000 stolen emails

wants to snuff a book about himself by going to Court with lawyers. I find that pretty rich indeed.

[MyOwnPeace]

32. Great point!

Do they have ANY idea what hypocrisy means?

[bucolic_frolic]

33. It's the whole administration in a nutshell

If it benefits Trump, any entity should break the law to help him.

But if it's detrimental to Trump, the law should be used to stifle free speech and silence publication.

Total double standard. Total hypocrisy.

[MyOwnPeace]

34. And Moscow Mitch preaches "the Gospel!"

After what he did in the Merrick Garland debacle, he recently announced that should there be a SC vacancy he'd immediately move to fill it (er, Mitch, isn't this within the time when "the voters" should have the opportunity to decide?).

Actually, I despise Moscow Mitch McTurtle even more than BunkerBoy!!!

[DonaldsRump]

13. It looks like the US DoJ and US Attorney's Office

...didn't list John Bolton's home address like they did in the principal complaint in this case filed yesterday. I am not sure how low the government can go, but this was near that low.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

15. The reason for that was ...

FinlandOrMaybeRussiaHat Retweeted

Everybody in hysterics about the home address: stop. Read the local rules. They require it. LCvR 5.1(c)(1)

Link to tweet

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. "Katie Graham's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's ever published."

WATERGATE Key Players John Mitchell

President Nixon's former law partner served as his attorney general before resigning in 1972 to head the Committee for the Re-election of the President. In September 1972, stories by The Washington Post linked Mitchell to a secret campaign fund that paid for the Watergate burglary. When Post reporter Carl Bemstein called for a comment, Mitchell directed his response at the Post's publisher, saying "Katie Graham's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's ever published." According to later testimony, Mitchell approved $250,000 for the break-in.

Mitchell was later charged with conspiracy, perjury and obstruction of justice. He was convicted in 1974, the first time in U.S. history that an attorney general had been convicted of criminal activities. Mitchell served 19 months in a minimum-security prison in Alabama before being released on parole for medical reasons. Mitchell's outspoken wife, Martha, whose allegations of White House involvement in the scandal had been attributed to alcoholism and mental illness, died in 1976.

After his release from prison, Mitchell lived in Georgetown with longtime companion Mary Gore Dean -- part owner of the exclusive Jockey Club. He died at age 75 on Nov. 9, 1988. Nixon led the funeral procession for his most loyal supporter. A decorated Navy veteran, Mitchell was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

[noneof_theabove]

16. Same thing different day

Trump again let his alligator mouth overload his hummingbird ass.

Since you've already crapped your diaper, good luck getting it back in that tiny tight hummingbird ass.

[Zorro]

20. The government had months to review and adjudicate Bolton's book

They stonewalled completing the review to keep it from being published.

Now that the cat's out of the bag they'll go after the NYT (and all other media outlets he considers his enemy) for publishing excerpts that "endanger national security".

Just watch.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. NY Times v. United States (the Pentagon Papers case) settled that score

back in 1971. William Rehnquist, at that time an assistant AG (and Nixon's Bill Barr, which is why I contend he became a worse Supreme Court justice than any we have now), tried to get an injunction against the publication of a report about the failures of the Vietnam war. When the case got to the Supreme Court, they decided, 6–3, that the government failed to meet the heavy burden of proof required for a prior restraint injunction, saying "Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government."

[still_one]

26. I agree, however, we have a different SC, though I believe it will be a 5-4 decision

with Roberts voting with the liberal justices

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. I think it won't be a liberal vs. conservative decision.

The law is as clear as gin, and the Constitutional originalists aren't likely to decide against the precedent of the Pentagon Papers case or the Constitution itself - with the possible exceptions of Alito and Thomas, who are originalists only when it suits their ideology.

Even the dissenters in the case, Burger, Blackmun and Harlan, dissented only because they thought the decision had been made too quickly and without sufficient examination of the voluminous documents. That's not the situation with the Bolton book.

[still_one]

29. it will be interesting, and show which justices honor stare decisis

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. The Pentagon Papers case was really a much heavier lift.

The documents were straight out of the DoD; they really were classified; they really did contain national security information; and they were voluminous - about 4,000 pages. The NYT had started publishing them, bit by bit, and Nixon decided to try to get further publication enjoined (Kissinger talked him into it). The dissenters' main objection was that there hadn't been enough time to examine the papers to determine whether there was material that should not have been printed, not that enjoining publication might have been a prior restraint. In contrast, Bolton's book has been vetted for months and was originally cleared; it's already been printed for distribution and sale; and the media now have copies and have been reporting about its contents. Trump's petition for an injunction is almost certainly intended to deter others from writing tell-all books because I'm sure he knows this one won't go anywhere. I expect he'll also try to have Barr prosecute Bolton, which won't go anywhere either. Even Daniel Ellsberg's espionage charges were dropped.

[still_one]

36. +++

[Sloumeau]

21. Good Luck, DOJ idiots. The NY Times and the Washington Post already have copies.

Just try to get those copies back. Hahahaha.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

28. I'm not an attorney but it seems that even if the govt. stops Bolton from publishing

they can't stop the newspapers from reporting what's in the book.
It seems like a good way to go. It would have been Simon & Schuster that gave the copies to the press so Bolton's off the hook.
Even if the book isn't released through the publisher, the public has the info from the press.
Then we just have to wait to see if anything happens to the Oval Office Occupier.

[onetexan]

41. Already done. MSM has been all over this since yesterday.

And running it round the clock. Genie's out of the bag. Oh the ineptitude of his dumb lawyers

[NoRoadUntravelled]

42. This is really good news.

[DallasNE]

31. Bolton Will Have Embarrassing Examples

Where the approval process has occurred in less time than has passed in this case, pointing to the government slow-walking the process and things of that nature. This will not be the slam-dunk "the United States" claims in this legal document. In fact, this will likely point to an abuse of power on Trumps part to prevent the publication. We shall see. Of course, the Judge this is assigned to will make a big difference.

[Nevilledog]

37. They only sued Bolton.

What's the requested remedy? Bolton has to personally go to everyone who has an advanced copy? What about copies of the copies? And so on, and so on.

[iluvtennis]

38. Does anyone in trump's admin read. they've had the manuscripts for the book since January and it's

taken 6 months to assert their objections.

[Vinca]

40. Too late. Advance copies have already gone out to the media. LOL.