Sarah Palin Is Suing the New York Times

Sarah Palin "took a stand" this week against the New York Times in a lawsuit claiming defamation. 

CNNMoney reports that the former Alaska governor filed her complaint, which seeks upward of $75,000 in damages, against the Times on Tuesday for an editorial it published right after the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise earlier this month. 

In the op-ed touching on the viciousness of the current political climate, the Times editorial board had pointed a finger at Palin and cited her as a force of "political incitement" before the 2011 Gabby Giffords shooting in Arizona, claiming that an ad from...

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