A judge has lifted a gag order on Mary Trump, President Trump’s niece and the author of a new tell-all memoir about the Trump family, the Daily Beast reports.
Judge Hal Greenwald’s decision means that Mary Trump is free to discuss and promote her book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, which was published today.
The gag order was the result of a lawsuit by Robert Trump, President Trump’s brother, who accused his niece of violating a nondisclosure agreement she had signed.
Mary Trump’s lawyer, Theodore Boutrous Jr., praised the judge’s decision in a statement to the Daily Beast.
“The court got it right in rejecting the Trump family’s effort to squelch Mary Trump’s core political speech on important issues of public concern,” he said. “The First Amendment forbids prior restraints because they are intolerable infringements on the right to participate in democracy.”
A spokesman for Simon and Schuster, the book’s publisher, agreed, saying, “The unfettered right to publish is a sacred American freedom and a founding principle of our republic, and we applaud the Court for affirming well-established precedents against prior restraint and pre-publication injunctions.”
Mary Trump will appear on Good Morning America on Wednesday to discuss her book, according to a tweet by CNN reporter Oliver Darcy. As of Tuesday morning, her book was the No. 1 bestseller at both Amazon and Barnes Noble.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.