Alex Jones Looser

Austin TX

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The US supreme court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by the Infowars host, Trump ally and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was fighting a Connecticut court sanction in a defamation lawsuit brought by relatives of some victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay $100,000 in Sandy Hook case Read more Jones was penalized in 2019 by a trial court judge for an angry outburst against an attorney for the relatives and for violating numerous orders to turn over documents to lawyers. Judge Barbara Bellis barred Jones from filing a motion to dismiss the case and said she would order Jones to pay some of the families’ legal fees. Jones argued he should not have been sanctioned for exercising his free speech rights. The Connecticut supreme court upheld Bellis’s ruling last year. The families and an FBI agent who responded to the 2012 shooting, in which 20 first-graders and six educators were killed, are suing Jones and his web show over claims the massacre was a hoax. The families said they have been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones’s followers.