Sarah Palin's libel claims against The New York Times is taken to a new jury

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Thursday 26 February 2026 01:44 EST


Sarah Palin's eight-year-old defamation claims against The New York Times are being heard anew by a Manhattan jury this week, following their revival by an appeals court last year. Lawyers for the one-time Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, alongside the newspaper's legal team, are expected to present testimony and exhibits detailing the creation and subsequent correction of a 2017 editorial. Palin asserts the publication defamed her by erroneously linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting.

In his opening statement, attorney Shane Vogt told jurors that the newspaper had engaged in a “sickeningly familiar pattern” by targeting a popular Republican personality.

The Times admits it made an error, but attorney Felicia Ellsworth said in her opening that the newspaper “corrected the record as loudly, clearly and quickly as possible.” She said the correction was posted within 14 hours, and jurors will have to conclude that the newspaper's editors knew they were saying something false and said it anyway to reach a verdict against the Times and its former editorial page editor, James Bennet.

Palin sued the Times for unspecified damages in 2017, accusing it of damaging her career as a political commentator with the editorial about gun control published after U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, was wounded when a man with a history of anti-GOP activity opened fire on a congressional baseball team practice in Washington.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/sarah-palin-new-york-times-b2927836.html

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[travelingthrulife]

1. Why does our court system allow this abuse?

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Money talks, and the squeaky wheel gets the grease. /.nt

[wolfie001]

5. The loser from Alaska has Heritage funding, I'm sure

Or some other $ source from the RW wealthy kookery arsenal. Supreme Court has been co-opted by those morons so common sense and the dated American values system we used to have are gone.

[marble falls]

6. The same rights we all have. That's why we have appeals, higher courts and SCOTUS. ...

... MY big question is: who's paying her lawyers?

[Bengus81]

8. We all have those rights but not the money needed to possibly get justice

if wrongly convicted.

[marble falls]

10. The justice is a available, you can get all the justice you can afford.

[mpcamb]

15. Also, it feels like a distraction as the trump/Epstein files are gaining momentum.

[Jacson6]

9. We are all allowed to have due process and to appeal rulings.

Of course, The jury could find NYTimes liable and award Palin $1. The NYTimes would not have to pay her legal bills. I mean Palin can prove no actual damages because she is a public person.

[marble falls]

11. Pretty much my take. NYT had it corrected PDQ. How fragile was her "reputation" that it could be ruined in 12 hours?

[wolfie001]

2. Hope this goes nowhere but the NYT fucked up their coverage of the Baldoni/Livley debacle

They went in 100% for that lying misanthrope, greedy "Fake" Lively who plotted to steal Baldoni's film. Amazing how that case meandered as the evidence dripped out. "Lyin" Reynolds (her hubby) too. What a couple of creeps. My opinion.

[marble falls]

4. Obviously, her attorney's firm has taken this case on speculation. No way she'll take a cent.

[Bengus81]

7. Gosh Sarah...no luck in winning the lottery?

[marble falls]

12. And she's been playing the same number for seven years.

[AverageOldGuy]

13. Sarah Palin?

Name sounds familiar, can't place her. Was she important at some point?

[BumRushDaShow]

14. 45 keeps saying "Drill Baby Drill"

and like saying "Beetlejuice" 3 times, she pops up!

[Bayard]

16. First Amendment rights, and all that

It was an EDITORIAL. Someone's opinion.

[ificandream]

17. Have another drink, Sarah!