Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to immediately halt a $1.44 billion defamation judgment he owes for falsely claiming the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.

Jones appealed the massive judgment to the high court last month, and the justices were already scheduled to review it at their closed-door conference Friday.

Jones is now bringing an emergency appeal, which seeks to halt the judgment until the Supreme Court resolves the case. Jones warned that the shooting victims' families are otherwise poised to take control of his Infowars site and hand it over to The Onion, a satirical news site.

“Without a stay now, when this case is reviewed and later reversed, InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed -- which J

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