On Monday, a judge said he planned to throw out former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s defamation suit against The New York Times. Palin’s lawsuit followed an editorial from The Times that linked her to the deadly 2011 shooting in an Arizona parking lot of then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords

The judge said Palin’s attorneys produced a lack of evidence to suggest the news organization acted recklessly or knowingly published false material about her.

The Hill reports:

Palin lawyers have argued during an ongoing trial in U.S. District Court that the decisions of Times and that of James Bennet, then the editorial page editor at the newspaper, were made with “actual malice,” against the former governor, a high bar for defamation cases against public figures.

The editorial had suggested a link between Palin’s political action committee and the 2011 shooting that wounded several people, including Giffords.

The Times later corrected the article, noting that a previous version had “incorrectly stated that a link existed between political rhetoric and the 2011 shooting.”

Last week, Palin took the witness stand and described feeling “powerless” after the editorial’s publication.

“It was devastating to read, again, an accusation, a false accusation that I had anything to do with murder, murdering innocent people,” Palin said.