Jury hears opening statements in Sarah Palin's case against The New York Times
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After a delay of more than a week due to the plaintiff's having tested positive for Covid, attorneys finally gave opening statements in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against The New York Times on Thursday.
The lawsuit centers around an editorial that the Times published in June 2017, shortly after a shooting that left Republican Congressman Steve Scalise wounded.
The piece, entitled "America's Lethal Politics" discussed the shooting that wounded Scalise, as well as the 2011 shooting that left former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords wounded and six others dead. The editorial implied that the man who shot at Giffords and others, Jared Loughner, was inspired by a map circulated by Palin's Sarah PAC, writing at the time that the map "targeted electoral districts that put Ms. Giffords ... under stylized cross hairs."
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