Jury selected in retrial of Sarah Palin’s libel case against the New York Times

Ex-Alaska governor claims paper defamed her with editorial falsely linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting

A jury was selected on Monday to hear a retrial of Sarah Palin's claims that the New York Times libeled her in an editorial eight years ago.

Opening statements were scheduled for Tuesday as the one-time Republican vice-presidential candidate and ex-governor of Alaska gets another chance to prove to a federal jury that the newspaper defamed her with the 2017 editorial falsely linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting. Palin said it damaged her reputation and career.