Sarah Palin finally got her day in court against an avatar of the mainstream media that she has so often assailed: The New York Times.

During testimony Thursday that lasted several hours, Palin characterized The Times as a Goliath against which she felt powerless. She testified that she had trouble sleeping after the publication of a June 2017 editorial that falsely claimed a clear link between an ad from her political action committee and a deadly mass shooting that grievously wounded a Democratic congresswoman years earlier.

"It's hard to lay your head on a pillow and have a restful night when you know that lies are told about you, a specific lie that was not going to be fixed," Palin testified. "That causes some stress anyone would feel."

Palin filed the lawsuit against the Times shortly after the editorial's publication, alleging that the newspaper had defamed her. She had waited more than four years to take the stand, as the case wound its way through the court system.

Gingerly walked through her biography by her attorney, Palin presented herself to the jury as a single mom and grandmother, largely retired from politics and living in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska. Her life, she described it, was a far cry from the one she led as a crusading Republican governor and then John McCain's running mate in their unsuccessful 2008 bid for the White House.

In March 2010, Palin's political action committee targeted U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona and more than a dozen...

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