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It's Tuesday, February 15th. From Peachfish Productions, it's the Gest, I'm Mike Pasca.

My favorite Harry Potter spell is judgment non-abstantou verdictou! Actually, that is not

a Harry Potter spell that is a legal spell or Latin for a decision in a court of law

judgment notwithstanding the verdict. JNOV. Non-abstantou verdictou. I love it when

the Latin that you guess on happens to be the real Latin. So cool. And another cool guy

is Judge Jed Raycoff, who issued that judgment non-abstantou verdictou in the case he was

overseeing, which dealt with charges brought by Sarah Palin against the New York Times.

To recount, the New York Times had, in 2017, run an editorial about incendiary rhetoric

among politicians leading to real-life violence. Palin was in that editorial because supposedly

her pack put out a graphic showing a target over Gabby Giffords' district because that

district was a seat that Sarah Pack was targeting. And then Giffords was shot. Only the

connection had and has been debunked Giffords would be assassin had fixated on the congresswoman

plan to target her years before the graphic was ever in existence. Sarah Palin really had

nothing to do with that horrible crime. So the New York Times, including this claim in

an editorial, was sloppy rash and wrong. But that doesn't mean they were malicious as

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