Sarah Palin’s bid for new libel trial against New York Times thrown out

Judge rules former Alaska governor failed to provide ‘even a speck’ of evidence that the newspaper acted maliciously

Sarah Palin’s bid for a new trial in her libel case against the New York Times has been scuppered, with the judge ruling the former governor of Alaska failed to provide “even a speck” of evidence that the newspaper acted maliciously.

On Tuesday, US district judge Jed S Rakoff ruled that Palin had failed to prove the newspaper had malicious intent when it published an erroneous 2017 op-ed that linked Palin’s rhetoric to the shooting of former US representative Gabrielle Giffords.

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