Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to hit pause on an almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment that was imposed over his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

In a new filing, Jones said the court's immediate involvement is needed because his website, InfoWars, is on the verge of being turned over to satirical news site, The Onion, to help fund payments to family members of the Sandy Hook victims .

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If the case is not put on hold, "InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed," Jones' lawyers wrote.

The Sandy Hook tragedy occurred in December 2012, when a gunman killed 20 first-grade children and six adults at th

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