The justices did not comment on their order, which they issued without even asking the families of the Sandy Hook victims to respond to Jones’ appeal. An FBI agent who responded to the shooting also sued.
Jones filed for bankruptcy in late 2022, and his lawyers told the justices that the “plaintiffs have no possible hope of collecting” the entire judgment.
He is separately appealing a $49 million judgment in a similar defamation lawsuit in Texas after he failed to turn over documents sought by the parents of another Sandy Hook victim.
In the Connecticut case, the judge issued a rare default ruling against Jones and his company in late 2021 because of what she called Jones’ repeated failure to abide by court rulings and to turn over certain evidence to the Sandy Hook families. The judge convened a jury to determine how much Jones would owe.
Please relax with the whataboutism. Just because the SCOTUS is still a despicably corrupt institution doesn’t mean that it’s not a good thing that they’re refusing to coddle the fascist in this one case.
Conversely, just because people are rightly pleased with this development doesn’t mean that they’ll all forget everything else they know about the Roberts court unless you hasten to remind them at length.