Alex Jones outside a bankruptcy hearing in 2024. In October, 2022, a six-person jury issued a US$964-million verdict against the Infowars host, who had called the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his appeal of the US$1.4-billion judgment a Connecticut jury and judge issued against him for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax staged by crisis actors.

The Infowars host is arguing that the judge was wrong to find him liable for defamation and infliction of emotional distress without holding a trial on the merits of allegations lodged by relatives of victims of the shooting, which killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut.

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