Alex Jones goes to the Supreme Court

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Alex Jones goes to the Supreme Court

By Kelsey Dallas
on Oct 13, 2025


(Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images)
Last week, conservative media personality Alex Jones filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court, asking the justices to pause a lower-court judgment that would require him to pay more than $1.4 billion for making false claims about the 2012 school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

As the application noted, it was his second request for the Supreme Court’s help in a little over a month. On Sept. 5, Jones urged the court to hear his appeal of lower court proceedings, contending that he improperly was found liable for defamation and emotional distress experienced by the families of children killed at Sandy Hook.

The justices considered Jones’ petition for review during their private conference on Friday, Oct. 10, which means we could learn its fate as soon as Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. EDT, when the court will next release an order list.

Here’s a brief overview of how this case developed and why Jones believes it is worthy of Supreme Court review.

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[allegorical oracle]

1. Last photo I saw of Jones, a few days ago, he was sporting a Hitlerian

mustache. (That mustache in its 1930s fashion heyday was called a "brush" mustache.)