Alex Jones lawyers want to bar all mention of white supremacy and extremism from his trial with Sandy Hook families

• An attorney for Alex Jones requested that evidence on white supremacy be barred from a trial.
• Jones was sued for defaming parents of Sandy Hook victims, and faces hefty damages.

Attorneys for Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist, want evidence about white supremacy and right-wing extremism barred from an upcoming trial.

The jury trial is to decide how much Jones should pay parents of Sandy Hook mass shooting victims he has already been found guilty of defaming.

A Connecticut judge ruled that he defamed eight families of victims killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Jones had baselessly alleging that they were "crisis actors" who staged the atrocity.

In court filings submitted Tuesday, Jones' attorneys requested that a judge push back the date for the trial alongside a flurry of other requests.

They that the judge block "the introduction of evidence on the topics of white supremacy and right-wing extremism."

"Such evidence is not relevant to the issues that will be before the jury and would also be unfairly prejudicial and inflammatory to the defendants," attorneys Norm Pattis and Kevin Smith wrote.

Jones also lost two defamation lawsuits brought by the parents of Sandy Hook victims in Texas last year, and his bid to file for federal bankruptcy protection didn't work.

This resulted in scheduling conflicts for the various trials where the damages he's got to pay will be decided, reported the News-Times local Connecticut newspaper.

The Sandy Hook mass shooting in December 14, 2012, resulted in the deaths of 20 children and 6 staff members, and renewed debate about gun control legislation.

Jones, founder and host of conspiracy theory site Infowars, pushed baseless claims that the shootings were faked by the government as part of a plot to clamp down on gun ownership.