Supreme Court turns away Alex Jones' attempt to block $1.5B defamation judgment

The Supreme Court rejected conservative conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' last-ditch attempt to block an almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment he faces over false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected conservative conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' last-ditch attempt to block an almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment he faces over false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

The court without comment turned away Jones' appeal of a state court ruling.

Last week he urged the court to urgently intervene, saying that if the court did not take action, his website, Infowars, was at risk of being turned over to the satirical news site The Onion.

The proposed acquisition would be used to help fund payments to family members of the Sandy Hook victims.

Jones’ lawyer, Ben Broocks, had warned in the filing last week that if the case was not put on hold, “InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed.” Broocks did not respond to a request for comment.