Sarah Palin scores victory with new trial in NY Times defamation case
NEW YORK — Sarah Palin on Wednesday won her bid for a new trial against the New York Times over an editorial that the former Alaska governor said was defamatory.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Palin can try again to prove that the Times should be liable for a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked her to a mass shooting six years earlier that killed six people and seriously wounded Democratic U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Lawyers for Palin argued that U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, who oversaw the February 2022 trial, wrongly excluded evidence of the Times’ actual malice and wrongly instructed jurors to disregard some of that evidence.
Media critics, and Palin herself, have viewed the case as a possible vehicle to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, the landmark 1964 U.S. Supreme Court decision that set a high bar for public figures to prove defamation.
To win, public figures must show that media demonstrated “actual malice,” meaning they knowingly published false information or had reckless disregard for the truth.
I’m very happy to see Sarah get a ‘win’ for a change. She trusted McCain and backed him to the hilt. True to form he betrayed her, incompetent asshole that he was.
I won’t forgive him for that. As for Sarah, she has my support always.
Looking to the future I hope Trump can find a spot for her in his administration when he blows the Dems right out of the water. That is ‘if she wants it’. I don’t know what is happening in her life now.
Whatever it is ‘God Speed’ Sarah. I wish you only the best.