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Anonymous10/14/25, 22:02No.1447630Supreme Court rebuffs Alex Jones’ effort to overturn $1.4 billion Sandy Hook judgment
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/politics/alex-jones-sandy-hook-supreme-court
The Supreme Court declined an appeal from Alex Jones on Tuesday, brushing aside the right-wing conspiracy theorist’s effort to overturn a $1.4 billion libel judgment a lower court ordered against him over his false comments about the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre.
Jones has faced mounting legal pressure after juries in Connecticutand Texasfound him liable in 2022 for defamation and emotional distress over his lies about the massacre, in which 20 first graders and six educators were killed. Jones has repeatedly tried to head off the sale of his far-right platform, Infowars, to pay those damages.
“The result is a financial death penalty by fiat imposed on a media defendant whose broadcasts reach millions,” Jones told the Supreme Court in an appeal filed at the Supreme Court in September.
The families waived their right to respond to that appeal — and the court did not order them to do so.
In a separate emergency appeal Jones filed at the Supreme Court last week, he said his platform has an average of 30 million daily listeners. Without an intervention by the high court, his attorneys wrote, “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.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied that emergency appeal later Tuesday.
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Anon10/14/25, 22:03No.1447631
Earlier this year, a federal judge ordered that Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, be turned over to a court-appointed receiver, who would be responsible for selling the assets. The order paved the way for the satirical news outletThe Onion to revive its bid for the platform.As is almost always the case, the high court did not explain its decision to deny the appeal.Jones was found liable in 2022 for defamation after repeatedly claiming on air that the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre was a “hoax.” He has yet to pay a single cent of the more than $1 billion in damages he owes the families.Chris Mattei, an attorney representing Sandy Hook families, said: “The Supreme Court properly rejected Jones’s latest desperate attempt to avoid accountability for the harm he has caused. We look forward to enforcing the jury’s historic verdict and making Jones and Infowars pay for what they have done.”The Onion did not comment on the ruling.
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Anon10/14/25, 22:04No.1447632
L M A OI guess they realized after Kirk died they need to start scrubbing to disassociate from the shitheads who said even worse things than him.
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Anon10/14/25, 22:11No.1447634
In 2025, when the right has an iron grip on all of the levers of power in the United States, Alex Jones still manages to be a fucking loser
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy lol
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Anon10/14/25, 23:00No.1447640
So Trump and his pals are in on it too.
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Anon10/15/25, 03:50No.1447782
No freedom from consequences. Lol. Get a genuine Rudy Giuliani watch right here, folks. Just more corpses on the pile as the Beast scales to Heaven to wage war. Go, Trump, Go!
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Anon10/15/25, 22:29No.1448073
Wait this is the man that sucked all the farts outta Putin's ass right? Or is it the one that takes all those suppository muscle pills???!@? ANY WHO RELEASE THE FILES YA CREEPS!
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Anon10/16/25, 00:06No.1448127
How can the USA claim its citizens have a right to free speech when you can be fined $1.4 billion for hurting a few people's feelings? He didn't actually do anything.
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Anon10/16/25, 13:53No.1448276
If I were the court, I would start seizing assets before he can swindle out of it.
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Anon10/16/25, 15:56No.1448296
you can lie as much as you want whenever you want, but as soon as you begin making money off of it it alerts the jews to your presence
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Anon10/16/25, 17:53No.1448325
1448292
>What?
1448292 is retarded for saying that
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Anon10/17/25, 07:00No.1448489
>What?
1448418 is a retard