Sarah Palin Defamation Trial Against New York Times Postponed

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gestures as she leaves the stage during the 41st annual Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord International Hotel and Conference Center in National Harbor, Md., on March 8, 2014. T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty Images

NEW YORK—Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose defamation trial against The New York Times was supposed to start in federal court this week, has tested positive for COVID-19, causing the trial to be postponed until Feb. 3.

Palin is unvaccinated and publicly stated in Arizona in December 2021 that “it will be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot.”