Alex Jones asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to pause the $1.4 billion defamation judgment against him over false claims he made about the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting.

Jones appealed the judgment to the high court, which is scheduled to review that petition during its closed-door conference on Friday, but asked the justices to block the judgment while they deliberate on whether to take up the appeal. Lawyers for Jones argue he will suffer irreparable harm if the families of the shooting victims are permitted to take control of his assets, including InfoWars, and sell them before the Supreme Court can review the case.

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“Without a stay now, when this case is reviewed and later reversed, InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed – which Jones believes is the Plaintiffs’ intention. Hence, Jones will clearly experience irreparable injury if a stay is not granted,” the petition to the high court’s emergency docket said.

Jones’s lawyers said granting a stay would cause minimal harm to the families, who successfully won the defamation lawsuit, arguing they would only face a short delay in receiving their judgment should the high court grant his stay but reject taking up the case.

“Plaintiffs have no possible hope of collecting all of this $1,500,000,000 judgment. If a stay is granted and cert denied – thus ending the stay – the Plaintiffs will only have been delayed in their plans a short time. If, however, this Court does grant Jones’s Writ and reverses, the Stay will actually have been warranted and no damage will have been sustained,” the petition said.

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Jones was ordered by a Connecticut jury in 2022 to pay the more than $1 billion judgment after falsely claiming the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, which resulted in 26 people being killed, was a hoax.

The families of victims successfully sued Jones for the harm his false statements about the massacre caused them, with multiple appeals courts rejecting Jones’s attempts to toss the ruling. Jones’s bid at the Supreme Court marks his last-ditch effort to stop the judgment from being handed down.