Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has moved for a new trial and is asking for the disqualification of a federal judge who preempted the jury in her defamation case against the New York Times. In a court filing, Palin through her lawyers wants U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, a Clinton nominee, disqualified and any rulings and orders he issued since Aug. 28, 2020, vacated. Rakoff on Feb. 14, while the jury was still deliberating, ruled that Palin had failed to prove New York Times employees acted with malice—the standard under Supreme Court precedent—when they inserted language into a column claiming a map Palin’s political action committee circulated incited Jared Lee Loughner, a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), into carrying out a mass shooting on Republican members of Congress in 2017. The paper later removed the claim of incitement and said “no connection to the shooting was ever established” but …