The likely futility of the DOJ’s request for a temporary restraining order blocking publication of John Bolton’s THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED — which has effectively already been published and distributed around the world — was clear in a lengthy Friday afternoon hearing before Judge Royce Lamberth as soon as he deployed his Texas lexicon: “It seems to me…that the horse, as we used to say in Texas, seems to be out of the barn.” The government’s weak response was that “the onus is on Mr. Bolton to figure out how to” recall the hundreds of thousands of books in […]
