Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.

  • pinkdrunkenelephantsEnglish
    52·
    8 months ago

    How is that constitutional?

    EDIT: The U.S. government needs to be overthrown so bad 🤦

    • tech@lemmy.world
      61·
      8 months ago

      That article is about state governments. Overthrowing the federal government probably won’t be the best course of action.

      • pinkdrunkenelephantsEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        Overthrowing any state or local government would require taking on and overthrowing the feds by the nature of the hierarchy.