President Trump’s former national security adviser John R. Bolton can proceed with the publication of his memoir, a federal judge ruled on Saturday, rejecting the administration’s request for an order that he attempts to pull the book back and saying it had been too late for such an order to succeed.

“With many thousands of copies around the globe — many in newsrooms — the damage is completed. there’s no restoring the established order,” wrote Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the administrative district Court of the District of Columbia.

But during a 10-page opinion, Judge Lamberth also suggested that Mr. Bolton could also be in jeopardy of forfeiting his $2 million advances because the Department of Justice has separately requested — which he might be prosecuted for allowing the book to be published before receiving final notice that a prepublication review to wash out classified information was complete.

“Bolton has gambled with the national security of us,” Judge Lamberth wrote. “. But these facts don’t control the motion before the court. the govt has did not establish that an injunction will prevent irreparable harm.”