Alex Jones Doesn’t Want to Talk About White Supremacy

Alex Jones has rather a lot to say—simply not on the subject of white supremacy. In a Connecticut court docket doc filed Wednesday, Jones’ authorized workforce motioned to restrict skilled testimony on white supremacy and far-right extremism as a part of an ongoing lawsuit towards Jones in response to his feedback surrounding the Sandy Hook Elementary School taking pictures.

To put it kindly, Alex Jones is an alt-right radio host, proprietor of InfoWars, and throughout controversial man. A typical peddler of conspiracy theories from chemicals turning frogs gay to climate change as a hoax, arguably Jones’ most well-known (and inflammatory) feedback embrace these made concerning the tragic faculty taking pictures at Sandy Hook Elementary School that shattered the Connecticut city of Newton practically ten years in the past.

Jones alleged that the Sandy Hook faculty taking pictures was a hoax, which, naturally, struck a chord with the mother and father who misplaced their kids within the taking pictures, main a gaggle of them to file a defamation lawsuit in Connecticut in 2018. The court docket filings have been steadily trickling in since then, however this week, Alex Jones’ authorized workforce has motioned to forbid the presentation of proof concerning white supremacy and far-right extremism within the yet-to-be-scheduled trial. The motion in limine reads:

The plaintiffs have disclosed several potential skilled witnesses. At least two of them, Dr. Heidi Beirich and Oren Sagal, could, in line with the disclosures, try and testify on the matters of white supremacy and right-wing extremism. Additionally, the plaintiffs could search to introduce proof on these matters by different witnesses and reveals. No matter the supply, proof referring to these matters is irrelevant, could be an assault on the defendants’ character and play to the feelings of the jury and distract from the primary points.

Jones’ authorized workforce additional argues that proof involving the matters of white supremacy and far-right extremism are irrelevant on this case and shouldn’t be launched in the course of the court docket listening to, and that introduction of those matters is a ploy by the plaintiffs to distract the court docket from the case at hand. “Attempts to associate the defendants with individuals who espouse racist or extreme views would amount to improper character evidence,” the doc elaborates.

This will not be Jones’ solely authorized entanglement concerning a faculty taking pictures. Jones is dealing with the same defamation lawsuit in Texas over the Sandy Hook faculty taking pictures, which Jones tried to wriggle out of authorized fines and potential harm funds by submitting for chapter for 3 of his companies, together with InfoWars. Jones was also sued for defamation in Texas by a person that Jones falsely recognized because the shooter within the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School taking pictures in Parkland, Florida.