Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is asking the US Supreme Court to review a Connecticut court’s nearly $1.4 billion judgment against him and Infowars stemming from his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax.

The default judgment entered against Jones and his Infowars parent company in 2022 after “minor” discovery violations was an unjust and disproportionate penalty, Jones’ lawyers told the justices in a petition filed on Sept. 5 and obtained by Bloomberg Law.

The judgment runs afoul of First Amendment protections established in New York Times v. Sullivan, they said.

“It is an amount that can never be paid, and which based on the trial court’s findings may not be dischargeable in bankruptcy,” they said. “The result is a financial death penalty by

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