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.

The Supreme Court declined an appeal from Alex Jones on Tuesday, brushing aside the right-wing conspiracy theorist’s effort to overturn a $1.4 billion libel judgment a lower court ordered against him over his false comments about the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre.

The Supreme Court rejected conservative conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' last-ditch attempt to block an almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment he faces over false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a challenge by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to a $1.4 billion judgment awarded to families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in Connecticut over the Infowars website founder's false statements that the 2012 incident was a hoax.

The Infowars host’s appeal sought to upend the $1.4 billion judgment that Jones called “the largest in American libel history.”

The Supreme Court on Tuesday shot down far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' request to review the more than $1.4 billion judgment he was ordered to pay to the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims.

Alex Jones attempted to challenge the more than $1 billion he owes to families of Sandy Hook shooting victims.