BREAKING: Supreme Court decides on Alex Jones’ appeal of $1.4 billion Sandy Hook judgment

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From ABC News: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the appeal from conservative commentator and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has been ordered to pay $1.4 billion in damages to the families of victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The court did not explain the denial.

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.

Meanwhile, independent journalist Breanna Morello, who previously worked for Fox News, shared the following allegation:

Deputy AG Todd Blanche SHUT DOWN Ed Martins investigation into exposing the corrupt lawfare attacks against InfoWars, says Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones).

Jones says Blanche threatened to fire Ed Martin, if he continued to pursue this investigation. My DOJ sources tell me that Blanche has been working aggressively hard to shut down efforts to help lawfare victims and protect members of the Obama-Biden regime.

Ed Martin, the U.S. Pardon Attorney, refuted those claims, as he wrote in a post on X, “I’ve been seeing a lot of BS lately about DOJ and how things work here. Did you forget that you can’t trust “anonymous sources?” (aka “liars”)? Ask me, I’ll tell you: Pam, Todd, me, & rest of us are kicking ass together. Just today, Todd and I (and others) sat at his conference table and plotted how to beat some bad guys.”

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