Jury Seated in Retrial of Sarah Palin’s Libel Suit Against the New York Times, Amid Jokes From Error-Plagued Judge

The jury was seated in less than an hour on Monday morning.

AP/Yuki Iwamura
Sarah Palin arrives April 21 at a defamation trial that an editorial about gun control in The New York Times in 2017 was devastating and “kicked the oomph” out of her AP/Yuki Iwamura

A jury was selected Monday in the retrial of Sarah Palin’s libel suit against the New York Times with the judge – who’s still overseeing the case despite an appeals court finding that he made a major error that caused the original verdict to be thrown out –  quipping that the adversaries were “complete unknowns I’m sure.”

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