The restrictions also provided for prior restraint of material deemed dangerous to national security.
"What's at issue has nothing to do with prior restraint," he said.
Some were made subject to prior restraint rather than the normal censorship after the fact.
I would have asked why he thought this was a permissible form of prior restraint.
But whatever his good intentions, he had open to him other remedies than prior restraint.
It could, he said, operate as a form of prior restraint.
The result was a system that operated as an effective prior restraint.
"We have said all along that prior restraint was not appropriate in this case."
Puerto 80 points out that the same reasoning could be applied to any case of prior restraint.
"I think that amounts to an improper prior restraint," the judge said.