Palin’s Defamation Retrial Against NY Times Begins Monday

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gets another crack at The New York Times as the retrial of her defamation lawsuit is set to begin in a Manhattan federal court on Monday.

A federal appeals court in August ordered a new trial after Palin lost the first one in 2022 against the newspaper and former editorial page editor James Bennet. The appeals court cited problematic rulings by the presiding judge, Jed Rakoff, who is set to preside over the retrial, too.

Palin first filed the lawsuit in 2017 in response to a Times editorial that the former vice-presidential nominee said defamed her.

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