A former top Times editor is set to continue to testify in the Palin libel trial.

James Bennet, the former editorial page editor for The New York Times, is expected to continue testifying on Wednesday in the trial that will determine whether The Times is held liable for defamation in the United States for the first time in at least 50 years.

The Times is being sued by Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, whose legal team tried for most of the day on Tuesday to convince the jury that Mr. Bennet and other Times journalists acted hastily and recklessly in publishing an editorial that falsely linked Ms. Palin’s political rhetoric to a mass shooting.

They are also trying to establish that The Times was slow in appending a correction, which did not name her or offer an apology to Ms. Palin.

They focused on emails between Mr. Bennet and other members of the Times opinion staff to establish a timeline between the publication of the editorial on the night of June 14, 2017, and the addition of the correction the next morning.

The editorial, which lamented the nation’s increasingly heated political discourse, was written after the shooting at a congressional baseball team practice in June 2017 that left Representative Steve Scalise, Republican of Louisiana, gravely wounded. As Mr. Bennet was editing the piece before publication, he inserted an incorrect reference to a 2010 map from Ms. Palin’s political action committee that included illustrations of cross hairs over 20 House districts held by Democrats.

That addition — “the link to political incitement was clear” — asserted that there was a link between the map and the 2011 shooting that critically injured another member of Congress, Gabrielle Giffords, and killed six others in Tucson, Ariz. In fact, such a link was never established.