Posted on 03/01/2022 6:42:31 AM PST by fluorescence
NEW YORK, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate, plans to seek a new trial and have the judge disqualified after losing her defamation case against the New York Times.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan discussed Palin's plan at a hearing on Wednesday, and said he will issue a written opinion by March 1 explaining why he dismissed her case while jurors were deliberating.
He said he would speed up the opinion because of the "fracas" surrounding the dismissal.
The unusual hearing came eight days after jurors rejected Palin's claim that the Times and former editorial page editor James Bennet defamed her in a June 2017 editorial. read more
That editorial incorrectly linked Palin to a mass shooting in 2011 where six people died and then-congresswoman Gabby Giffords was seriously wounded. It was corrected the morning after being published.
A day before the jury verdict, Rakoff said he planned to dismiss Palin's case even if jurors found in her favor, because she had not shown that the Times acted with "actual malice."
Rakoff did not tell jurors about his ruling, but several told his law clerk in routine post-trial discussions that they learned about it through "push" notifications sent from news media to their cellphones.
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Trump should lend her some of his lawyers. She and DeSantis are the 2 best candidates for his VP.
How does she get a fair trial in NY?
You must be kidding. Her political career ended as soon as that train wreck of her family situation began showing up in public media reports.
Worth a shot thought these kind of appeals are seldom successful.
I understand Giuliani and Powell aren't that busy. Seriously, Palin would be better off picking her own.
That’s a good question. It’s also one that should have been asked by the plaintiff BEFORE the original lawsuit was filed.
I am not kidding. Trump has his own train wreck of a family as a twice-divorced man. Why do you give Trump a pass but not Sarah?
Trump is not a social conservative, he has some conservative beliefs. Sarah is a social conservative.
Trump's behavior was always in tune with his clownish, tabloid-page personality.
Palin's story is completely at odds with the political persona she had as a governor and a VP candidate.
Palin’s story is completely at odds with the political persona she had as a governor and a VP candidate.
***Baloney. She was and continues to be under attack by the antichristian bigotry of the MSM and you have bought into it.
And Palin’s family has already been destroyed by the left. Thus she has less to lose than someone else. By dropping that weight onto her years ago they’ve taken away from themselves one thing they had that could have controlled her.
Yup. I would have confidence that Sarah would do what could be done to remove bullshiite section 230 protection from internet faux-platform publishers, and also yank FCC licenses from free TV media due to biased news coverage.
And that’s just a start.
Uh -- whut?
The left is responsible for the behavior of her family members?
I'm not justifying the pressure, or whatever the motive was for their divorce. I'm just saying it is what it is and as a single woman she can jump back into the political fray feet first without worrying about the political left going after a spouse.
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