Court proceedings in
Sarah Palin’s
lawsuit against the
kicked off Thursday, in a rare defamation trial against a leading news outlet that could have broad ramifications for the future of media law.
The case stems from a June 2017 editorial published hours after a gunman opened fire at a congressional baseball practice outside Washington, D.C., wounding several people, including
Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise,
a top House Republican.
The piece referenced the 2011 Arizona shooting in which former Democratic congresswoman
Gabrielle Giffords
was wounded and six people were killed, suggesting that the violence was fueled by political rhetoric. It cited an ad from Ms. Palin’s political-action committee that had superimposed crosshairs over Democratic…
