Trump niece book blocked by New York judge but lawyer promises appeal

President’s brother, Robert Trump, is trying to stop publication of niece’s ‘revelatory’ tell-all book

An attorney for Mary Trump promised an immediate appeal on Tuesday after a judge in New York issued a preliminary injunction to stop Donald Trump’s niece publishing a book about the family.

In a statement, lawyer Ted Boutrous called the order in a New York supreme court in Dutchess county “a prior restraint on core political speech that flatly violates the first amendment” and promised an immediate appeal.

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