The Supreme Court did not explain its decision to deny his request.
Jones’s lawyers had made a free speech argument – that he should have the same protections under the First Amendment of the Constitution that journalists have. And Jones argued the financial consequences were too steep.
“The result is a financial death penalty by fiat imposed on a media defendant whose broadcasts reach millions,” he told the Supreme Court in the appeal.
Chris Mattei, a lawyer for the Sandy Hook families, said in a statement provided to BBC that the court “properly rejected Jones’s latest desperate attempt to avoid accountability for the harm he has caused.
We look forward to enforcing the jury’s historic verdict and making Jones and Infowars pay for what they have done.”
While The Onion’s attempt to buy Infowars was rejected by a bankruptcy judge last year, Infowars could soon be up for sale again, giving The Onion another chance.
Legal pressure against Jones has been mounting since he was found liable by two juries for defamation and emotional distress over his lies about the Sandy Hook school shooting.
After the first verdict in Connecticut, Jones filed for bankruptcy protection in Texas, and Infowars was put up for auction to pay the Sandy Hook families, who had sued to collect on the judgment.
It was during Texas court proceedings that Jones acknowledged the attack was “100% real”. He had previously claimed the massacre was “staged” as part of a government plot to take guns from Americans and that “no-one died”.