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Courthouse News reports: Lawyers for former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin asked the Second Circuit on Monday afternoon to revive her twice-dismissed defamation suit against The New York Times over a 2017 editorial that linked her to a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Mounting an appeal against the “actual malice” standard enshrined in the landmark 1964 ruling in New York Times …

“It’s so disheartening, the examples that you’ve given, Eric. It makes the populace lose a lot of faith in our government and that’s an understatement. “Unfortunately, what this leads to, when we recognize the examples that you just gave, the two-tier different justice systems that apply according to politics, you know it makes the good guy think what’s the use …

“I think of those who are conducting this travesty and creating this two-tiered system of justice and I want to ask them, ‘What the heck? Do you want us to be in civil war?’ Because that’s what’s going to happen. We’re not going to keep putting up with this. And Eric, I like that you suggested that we need to …

“You know, the definition of a cult is a group of people who are excessively supporting one another and a cause. [Cults are] all about conformity and compliance and intolerance of anyone who doesn’t agree with what their mission is. Okay? That’s the definition of what the left is engaged in right now, speaking of cults. [They’re] all about conformity …

Mediaite reports: Sarah Palin said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis should not run for the 2024 Republican nomination as she essentially auditioned to be Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick. Appearing on Tuesday’s edition of The Balance, the former Republican governor was asked by Newsmax host Eric Bolling about that possibility. “Do you think DeSantis jumps in?” Bolling asked. “DeSantis doesn’t need …

Posted this afternoon to Sarah Palin’s Facebook page: *Official Press Release From Governor Sarah Palin* It’s an honor to run for office in my homestate, offering to serve the great people of Alaska! Congratulations to Rep. Mary Peltola and her family as this new chapter in their lives – and the life of Alaska – unfolds. Challenging Washington, DC’s status …

The New York Times reports: Representative Mary Peltola, Democrat of Alaska and the first Alaska Native woman to serve in Congress, on Wednesday won a full term in the House, according to The Associated Press, holding back three conservative challengers. Ms. Peltola first won the seat in an August special election to finish the term of Representative Don Young, a …

The Independent reports: Sarah Palin has gone nuclear on the Republican Party, claiming the GOP sabotaged her Alaska House race and that they deserved their drubbing in the midterms. In a conspiracy-laden Instagram post, Ms Palin blamed the “cockamamie” ranked choice voting system, Senator Lisa Murkowski and the “dark, dysfunctional GOP machine” after she was seemingly trounced by Democrat Mary …

Talking Points Memo reports: With about 75 percent of the vote in, Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) leads with 47 percent of the vote in the ranked choice contest for Alaska’s sole congressional seat. When she won the same seat for a partial term, she had 40 percent of the vote after round one, and went on to beat the same …

The Associated Press reports: Alaska U.S. House candidate Sarah Palin called on fellow Republican Nick Begich to drop out of the race Monday, holding a news conference in the same place where on a holiday weekend more than a decade ago she announced plans to resign as Alaska’s governor. “He keeps calling me a quitter,” she told reporters, adding later: …

The Associated Press reports: Wednesday’s results were a disappointment for Ms. Palin, who was looking to make a political comeback 14 years after she was vaulted onto the national stage when John McCain selected her to be his running mate in the 2008 presidential election. After Ms. Peltola’s victory was announced, Ms. Palin called the ranked voting system “crazy, convoluted, …

CNN reports: Democrat Mary Peltola won the special election to fill Alaska’s House seat for the remainder of 2022, according to unofficial results released by the Alaska Division of Elections, thwarting former Gov. Sarah Palin’s bid at a political comeback — at least for a few months. But she’ll get another chance at the House race — Palin and Peltola …

NBC News reports: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has clinched one of four spots in November’s ranked-choice general election for the state’s at-large congressional seat, NBC News projects, keeping alive her hopes for a political comeback. She will be joined on the fall ballot by Republican Nick Begich, the namesake grandson of a former Democratic representative who held the seat, …

Mediaite reports: Sarah Palin gave an enthusiastic and angry speech at Trump‘s “Save America” Rally in Anchorage, Alaska on Saturday, during which she suggested that the global covid-19 pandemic was a conspiracy perpetrated against the American people for political reasons. Palin said that the midterms are about “control versus freedom” and added that “they used the plandemic” to try to …

The Anchorage Daily News reports: Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich, independent Al Gross and Democrat Mary Peltola solidified their leads in the race to advance to August’s special general election for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat, according to an updated ballot count Wednesday. The top four vote-getters in the 48-candidate special primary will advance to the special general election …

The Associated Press reports: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin leads in early results from Saturday’s special primary for the state’s only U.S. House seat, as voters whittled down the list of 48 candidates running for the position that was held for 49 years by the late U.S. Rep. Don Young. The early results showed Palin, endorsed by former President Donald …

The New York Times reports: Sarah Palin lost her bid for a new trial in her libel case against The New York Times on Tuesday, with a judge ruling that she had failed to introduce “even a speck” of evidence necessary to prove the newspaper had defamed her in a 2017 editorial. The written decision by Judge Jed S. Rakoff …

The New York Times reports: The senior strategist for Senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign said on Sunday night that he had lied to discredit a New York Times article that reported on Mr. McCain’s close relationship with a female lobbyist, a claim that the candidate and the campaign attacked at considerable length at the time. The statement from Steve …

The Insider reports: John McCain’s former campaign manager Steve Schmidt vented about the late senator’s daughter on Twitter, describing Meghan McCain as “a bully, entitled, unaccomplished, spoiled and mean.” Her tantrums and antics, Schmidt alleged in an 11-part Twitter thread, left the veteran senator “appalled and embarrassed” by his daughter during his 2008 campaign trail. According to the Washington Examiner, …

Media Matters has the transcript: SARAH PALIN: I think there are about fifty candidates in this race. It’s a real bizarre race — MARK LEVIN (HOST): Did you say fifty? PALIN: Fifty. And Mark, you’ll just really appreciate this. It’s mail-in only ballots. No hand counting to tabulate, got to go through a Dominion computer to count everything. And I …