The US Supreme Court dismissed Alex Jones’s complaint in the Sandy Hook Shooting case

The US Supreme Court has rejected a request from the right -wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to cancel nearly $ 1.5 billion ($ 1.1 billion) to slander against him.

Jones was ordered to make the payment in 2022 for claiming the mass shooting in 2012 at the Sandy Hook Primary School – in which 20 students and six teachers killed – it was a fraud.

To make this payment, Jones was forced to sell his Infowars media company on The Onion Satirical News site. He told the highest US court that the sale would cause irreparable harm to him and his 30 million audience.

Jones has not yet paid any of the damage he owes to Sandy Hook families.

The Supreme Court did not explain his decision to refuse his request.

Jones’ lawyers made an argument for free speech – that he should have the same protection according to the first amendment of the constitution that journalists have. And Jones claims that the financial consequences are too steep.

“The result is a financial death penalty by FIAT imposed on a media defendant, whose broadcasts reach millions,” he told the Supreme Court in the complaint.

Chris Matthew, a lawyer for Sandy Hook families, said in a statement provided to the BBC that the court “correctly rejected Jones’s last desperate attempt to avoid accountability of the harm it caused.

“We look forward to imposing the jury’s historical sentence and get Jones and Infowars to pay for what they have done.”

While Luke’s attempt to buy Infowars was rejected by a bankruptcy judge last year, Infowars could soon be sold again, giving Luke another chance.

The legal pressure against Jones is increasing as he was found responsible by two jurors for slander and emotional suffering from his lies for shooting at Sandy Hook School.

Following the first sentence in Connecticut, Jones filed a request for bankruptcy in Texas and Infowars was auctioned to pay to Sandy Hook families that had brought a case to collect the decisionS

It was during court proceedings in Texas Jones that the attack was “100% real”. Previously, he claims that the slaughter was “placed” as part of a government plot to take weapons from Americans and that “no one has died.”