Parties play games in cases of this nature all the time. Court battles like this can be bitter. Perjury is a criminal charge. Contempt is an option to. Judge

Parties play games in cases of this nature all the time. Court battles like this can be bitter. Perjury is a criminal charge. Contempt is an option to. Judges use the lever of jail time to deal with situations like this all the time (again, direct experience here -- a surrogate court judge put two 70+ year old ladies in Rikers for a month for failing to comply with the court repeatedly over years). Going to default was exceptional behavior that nobody shed a tear for because it's Alex Jones. Edit: To answer your question > How many more chances do you think Jones deserves here? If you're looking to make a political statement, sure none. If you're looking to have a fair trial, there's still steps A, B and C. Even the fact that he had to fight all those cases for the same thing separately is a deliberate step to fuck him. Then the court treating giving the same data in each trial as a separate offense is certainly cherry-picking. I'm not really complaining though because the concept of a fair trial does not exist. Civil or criminal. Do whatever you can not to end up in court. It always boils down to who has the most resources and the appetite for battle. Some pockets (like the state's) are near-infinite.