THE Supreme Court rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over a $1.4 billion defamation judgment against him.

Jones, 51, asked the Supreme Court to overrule a decision that found him guilty of defamation and infliction of emotional distress over comments he had made about the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.

Jones claimed that the Sandy Hook massacre, which resulted in the deaths of 20 first graders and six educators, was a “hoax.”

He was brought to court over his claims and found guilty by a judge in Connecticut in 2022.

As a result, Jones was ordered to pay $1.4 billion to the parents of the victims in Sandy Hook.

Jones argued that the judge in the case was wrong to find him guilty without holding a trial on the merits of the allegation, CNN reported.

Jones has tried to sell his right-wing platform, Infowars.

“The result is a financial death penalty by fiat imposed on a media defendant whose broadcasts reach millions,” Jones told the Supreme Court in his September appeal.

In 2022, Jones officially declared bankruptcy, according to The Associated Press.

His lawyers told the court that the “plaintiffs have no possible hope of collecting” the full $1.4 billion payment.

Families of the Sandy Hook victims have yet to see any money from the case.

Jones said Infowars, which averaged 30 million daily listeners, needed the Supreme Court to intervene in the case.

In 2025, a federal judge ordered InfoWars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, to be turned over to a court-appointed receiver.

The receiver would sell the company’s assets.

The company was bid on by the satirical news outlet, The Onion.

The Onion had previously attempted to acquire InfoWars in an auction to liquidate its assets in 2024, but the bankruptcy judge dismissed the auction results due to issues with the bidding process.

Without Supreme Court intervention, Jones’ attorneys wrote that “these viewers/listeners will not have just been deprived of a valued source of information, the risk is they will have been greatly deceived and damaged by operation of media source InfoWars by their ideological opposites.”

A representative for the Sandy Hook families said they believe the Supreme Court made the right decision.

“The Supreme Court properly rejected Jones’s latest desperate attempt to avoid accountability for the harm he has caused,” Chris Mattei, an attorney representing Sandy Hook families, told CNN.

“We look forward to enforcing the jury’s historic verdict and making Jones and InfoWars pay for what they have done.”

The Supreme Court justices did not comment on their decision to deny the appeal.

CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTS

In December 2012, 20 first-grade children and six adults at  Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, were killed by a gunman.

Since the tragic shooting, court papers state that Jones repeatedly said during online shows that the shooting was a “staged event.”

The disparaging comments led families of the 20 victims to sue Jones in Connecticut court.

The families claimed defamation and other charges, which the judge found him guilty of.

Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, parents of 6-year-old victim Jesse Lewis, said Jones had “tarnished the honor and legacy” of their son, and he couldn’t “even begin to describe the last nine-and-a-half years of hell” he has endured, according to NPR.

“There has not been a sincere apology,” she said.

“But if there was, ever, I liken it to being in a car accident and you run over someone and cause tremendous bodily damage and you look at that person lying on the ground and say, ‘I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry, I’m not accountable for any of the damage I just caused. But I’m sorry.’ That’s how I see it.”

Before appealing the decision in the Supreme Court, Jones tried and failed to appeal the verdict in state court.

Jones has previously raised conspiracy claims about the Oklahoma City and Boston Marathon bombings, as well as the mass shootings in Las Vegas and Parkland, Florida.