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Infowars host Alex Jones has filed a second amended counterclaim against the Sandy Hook families, arguing defendants colluded with the State of Connecticut to deprive him of his constitutional rights in connection to more than $1.5 billion in default judgments entered against him.
The February 2026 filing questions the Connecticut court’s imposition of “death penalty sanctions” against Jones, noting one “trivial” reason cited for the sanctions was his lawyers’ request to depose former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after she criticized Donald Trump’s ties to Jones during the 2016 campaign, while one Sandy Hook victim’s family member campaigned for her.
The filing also asserts Jones’ role as a member of the press and media covering a national event that thrust victims’ family members into the national spotlight turning them into public figures, and declares Connecticut failed to preserve his First Amendment free speech rights, as required by the U.S. Constitution.
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— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) February 12, 2026
Today Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) filed two significant pleadings in his ongoing quest to vindicate the violations to his First Amendment rights as a member of the press.
The first filing today is a request to the bankruptcy court in Houston to allow Jones… pic.twitter.com/6gAeaxYAu3
Jones’ filing argues that the default judgment essentially delegated core judicial functions to the plaintiffs, making them “state actors” who acted under “color of state law” when they determined liability, a key distinction for filing a §1983 civil rights countersuit.
As the document reads, “A State may not delegate to private litigants the power to determine the truth or falsity of protected speech, the existence of malice, or the constitutional limits on punishment involving a press/media defendant speaking on matters of public concern in a suit brought by public figures. Those are governmental functions imposed by the Constitution itself and state law and incapable of delegation, particularly regarding fundamental constitutional rights.”
The counterclaim also highlights the “cross-conveyed” judgments in the amounts awarded to plaintiffs in the separate Texas and Connecticut cases, claiming the significant disparity – 30 to 1 – resulted in “the parties to the Texas Case [threatening] to ‘blow the whistle’ on the wildly excessive Connecticut Judgment unless the Texas Plaintiffs were given a share; in other words, hush money.”
Jones is seeking relief under the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection clause for violations of his First, Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
“As direct result of these violations of Jones’s civil rights, his business has been decimated resulting in significant financial losses, and risk of significant future losses as the Connecticut Judgment holders seek recovery, all due to the past and on-going acts of the Counterclaim Defendants for which they must now be held accountable,” the suit states.
In a press release, Jones stated, “This counterclaim is about holding accountable those who, through the misuse of state power, deprived me of my fundamental rights to free speech, due process, and equal protection.”
“The Connecticut court’s actions turned private litigants into extensions of the state, bypassing constitutional safeguards in a case about public discourse on a national tragedy.”
Read Jones’ second amended counterclaim below:
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