The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from far-right media personality Alex Jones regarding a defamation lawsuit brought against him by family members of Sandy Hook Elementary victims and an FBI agent who responded to the shooting.

Jones’ emergency appeal asked the judges to pause a judgment made by a lower court that would have required him to pay more than $1.4 billion over false claims he made about the 2012 tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut.

His legal team explained in their emergency filing that “it is an amount that can never be paid, and which based on the trial court’s findings may not be dischargeable in bankruptcy. The result is a financial death penalty by fiat imposed on a media defendant whose broadcasts reach millions.”

He is also facing a separate $49 million defama

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