Alex Jones is requesting that the Supreme Court hear his appeal of the $1.4 billion judgment a Connecticut judge ordered against him for calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax.

The 2012 shooting killed 20 first-graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut.

Jones, a far-right conspiracy theorist, contends that the judge was wrong to find him liable for defamation and infliction of emotional distress without holding a trial based on accusations from the families of victims of the shooting.

According to the Associated Press, Judge Barbara Bellis issued a rare default ruling against Jones and his company, Infowars, in 2021 as a punishment. That meant that Bellis found Jones liable without a trial on the facts and convened a jury to determine what damages he owed.

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