Noah Feldman: Trump lawsuit against John Bolton is beyond frivolous

The government is resorting to bizarre legal ploys to stop publication of the former official’s book.

US President Donald Trump’s administration is suing former national security adviser John Bolton in a last-ditch effort to block publication of his forthcoming memoir, which contains damaging allegations about Trump’s attempts to get China’s President Xi to help him win re-election.

The Trump administration apparently understands that directly asking the court to bar publication would fail. So instead, government lawyers have invented a series of extraordinarily weak legal claims based on the non-disclosure agreement that all national security officials must sign.