Lawyers for The New York Times came out swinging on July 7 in Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the paper over an editorial linking her to a mass shooting, arguing the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate could not show The Times acted with actual malice.
Palin filed her suit against The Times last week, alleging that she was defamed by a June 14 editorial called “America’s Lethal Politics,” which she said ties her to the 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that resulted in six deaths and a gunshot wound to the head of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, who survived the attack.
