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https://www.aol.com/article/news/20...-new-york-times-just-got-thrown-out/23189906/

Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against The New York Times was thrown out Tuesday by a federal judge.

The former Alaska governor had sued the newspaper this summer after its editorial board drew a link between an ad from her political action committee to the deadly shooting that left Rep. Gabby Giffords injured in 2011.

But as Manhattan federal judge Jed Rakoff wrote in an opinion dismissing the case, Palin did not have a "plausible factual basis" to claim that the paper had defamed her.

"Responsible journals will promptly correct their errors; others will not," Rakoff wrote.

He continued: "But if political journalism is to achieve its constitutionally endorsed role of challenging the powerful, legal redress by a public figure must be limited to those cases where the public figure has a plausible factual basis for complaining that the mistake was made maliciously, that is, with knowledge it was false or with reckless disregard of its falsity."

 

[QuantumDerp]

Get fucked. Don't give a single shit for her, look at our fucking president.

 

[LiK]

Haha

 

[catapult37]

Nice to see the judiciary standing up for freedom of the press and specifically citing their constitutional duty. Very nice indeed.

 

[disappeared]

lol

 

[B-Dubs]

To the shock of absolutely no one.

 

[Transistor]

Good

 

[Team Filler]

"But if political journalism is to achieve its constitutionally endorsed role of challenging the powerful, legal redress by a public figure must be limited to those cases where the public figure has a plausible factual basis for complaining that the mistake was made maliciously, that is, with knowledge it was false or with reckless disregard of its falsity."

I feel like this bit right here was being pointed in more than just the direction of Palin. At least I hope it was.

 

[hitme]

I see an L all the way from Russia.

 

[Tyraniboah]

I feel like this bit right here was being pointed in more than just the direction of Palin. At least I hope it was.

Agreed. Trump can trash the press all he wants, it just won't go anywhere. I'm sure he's going to try though

 

[HAWDOKEN]

I see an L all the way from Russia.

That's good...that's damn good!

 

[TheOMan]

I see an L all the way from Russia.

What are you doing in Russia, comrade?

 

[night814]

What are you doing in Russia, comrade?

It's a Palin joke, she's stupidly said she could see Russia from her home in Alaska once.

Good for the free press.

 

[Armaros]

The fact that she tried to do it against the NYT, when the NYT SET the constitutional bar for defamation cases for public figures.

If anyone would know the limits of what they could post about public figures, its the NYT,

 

[Escape Goat]

Former half term governor and failed Vice Presidential candidate

 

[bionic77]

Fake courts?

 

[TheOMan]

It's a Palin joke, she's stupidly said she could see Russia from her home in Alaska once.

Good for the free press.

Yeah, I was trying to be funny too and failed