The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ appeal, leaving intact the $1.4 billion judgment against him for falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax staged by “crisis actors”.

Jones filed for bankruptcy in late 2022 , and his lawyers told the justices that the “plaintiffs have no possible hope of collecting” the entire judgment.

As many as 26 persons, including 20 first graders, were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, after a 20-year-old former student opened fire indiscriminately before fatally shooting himself.

Jones argued that the Connecticut lawsuit’s judgment violated his constitutional rights to due process and free speech. According to his Supreme Court filing, the $1.4 billion award is believed to be the largest i

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