Hello, Justice Department, hello, AG Barr, let me do a little legal research for you: "Any system of prior restraints of expression comes to this Court bearing a heavy presumption against its constitutional validity." New York Times v. United States.
The Government "thus carries a heavy burden of showing justification for the imposition of such a restraint."
Brennan, concurring: Our cases..have indicated that there is a single, extremely narrow class of cases in which the 1st Amendment's ban on prior judicial restraint may be overridden. Our cases have thus far indicated that such cases may arise only when the Nation is at war
The chief purpose of [1st Amend] is to prevent previous restraints upon publication. Thus, only governmental allegation and proof that publication must inevitably, directly and immediately cause the occurrence of an event
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