JUDGE PLANS TO THROW OUT SARAH PALIN’S CASE AGAINST THE NEW YORK TIMES

 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/02/judge-throw-out-sarah-palin-case-new-york-times

In a bombshell announcement on Monday, senior U.S. district judge Jed Rakoff said he plans to toss out Sarah Palin’s defamation suit against The New York Times––a decision he made while the jury was still deliberating. This ruling, Rakoff explained, was based on his belief that no jury could reasonably prove that the Times and its former editorial page editor James Bennet acted with “actual malice” when it published a 2017 editorial linking Palin’s political action committee to the 2011 mass shooting of Representative Gabby Giffords’s constituent event.