The Brief

Alex Jones wants the Supreme Court to hear his appeal of a $1.4 billion judgment related to his false claim saying the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a "hoax."

Families of the school shooting victims sued Jones over his remarks.

Jones filed for bankruptcy in 2022 and later acknowledged that the mass shooting was real.

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 base

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