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Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 28, 2017
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin filed a lawsuit yesterday against the New York Times for defamation in an editorial that linked her to the incitement of violence, the ABA Journal reports. The editorial said that in 2011, Palin’s political action committee had circulated a map of targeted electoral districts with crosshairs, including the district of U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was injured in a mass shooting that year that killed one and injured five others. It claimed that “the link to political incitement was clear.” The Times later issued a correction noting that there was no established link between political rhetoric and the shooting six years ago.