The conservative majority in the Supreme Court has folded once again. The United States Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Info Wars host Alex Jones to overturn the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The Justices did not give a comment on why they rejected Jones’ appeal. The Associated Press broke the news of the Supreme Court’s decision: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors. The Infowars host had argued that a judge was wrong to find him liable for defamation and infliction of emotional distress without holding a trial on the merits of allegations lodged by relatives of victims of the shooting, which killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut. The justices did not comment on their order, which they issued without even asking the families of the Sandy Hook victims to respond to Jones’ appeal. An FBI agent who responded to the shooting also sued. A lawyer who represents Sandy Hook families said the Supreme Court had properly rejected Jones’ “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,” lawyer Christopher Mattei said in a statement. A lawyer representing Jones in the case didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment. 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. He is separately appealing a $49 million judgment in a similar defamation lawsuit in Texas after he failed to turn over documents sought by the parents of another Sandy Hook victim. Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones’s appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment for his claims about Sandy Hook shooting Despite his bankruptcy filings, the Infowars founder will not be able to avoid paying pic.twitter.com/7pHnRvwUIs — RT (@RT_com) October 14, 2025 Alex Jones Exclusively Responds To Supreme Court Ruling That Judges – Not Juries – Can Find Americans Civilly Liable For Billions, Silence & Shut Them Down! Plus, Declassified Docs Prove Obama Commanded The Illegal Witchhunts Against The American People! https://t.co/zq4rmu67C1 — Alex Jones Network (@AJNlive) October 14, 2025 ABC News reported more on the massive judgement against Jones: A Connecticut jury in 2022 awarded $965 million in damages to 15 plaintiffs defamed by Jones when the Infowars host called the 2012 mass shooting, in which 20 young children and six adults were killed, a hoax. Later, a judge added an additional $473 million in punitive damages. Attorneys for Jones contended the sum is an “amount that can never be paid.” “The result is a financial death penalty by fiat imposed on a media defendant whose broadcasts reach millions,” their petition to the court read. The Supreme Court also rejected several other hot-button cases in its order list released Tuesday. The justices declined to hear an appeal from a group of Colorado parents seeking to sue their public school district over a policy that allegedly allows children to pursue gender transitions, and be supported by school staff, without any parental notification. In a statement, Justice Samuel Alito concurred with the decision, saying the case was an imperfect “vehicle” for examining the core legal question; but he urged the court to look for other opportunities to take up the “troubling — and tragic — allegations in the case.” In another case, the court rejected an appeal from a group of unnamed minors and their families who had sued the app Grindr for marketing to children, recommending them to nearby adults for sex and allegedly facilitating trafficking. Plus, it declined to take up a closely-watched California case challenging Food and Drug Administration regulations governing the use of stem cells to promote healing through new forms of treatment as well as a conservative group’s challenge to Department of Homeland Security’s authority to issue temporary work permits to immigrants who entered the country unlawfully without express consent from Congress.