Sarah Palin seeks to disqualify judge after ‘contaminated’ NY Times defamation trial

By Reuters Posted on March 23, 2022

FILE PHOTO: Sarah Palin, 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor, exits the United States Courthouse in New York

FILE PHOTO: Sarah Palin, 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor, exits the court during her defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, at the United States Courthouse in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., February 15, 2022. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo

By Jonathan Stempel

Sarah Palin called on the judge who oversaw her unsuccessful defamation case against the New York Times to disqualify himself, and said his series of errors tainted the outcome and required a new trial.

In a late Tuesday night filing in federal court in Manhattan, lawyers for the former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor said U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff set too high a bar for her to prove the Times acted maliciously.

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