SCOTUS sending signals to conservatives they’re not going to be ‘played’ anymore: experts

A surprising decision by the Supreme Court this past week to not even consider taking up a challenge to a so-called “gay conversion” ban in Washington state caught the eyes of two legal scholars who claimed members of the nation's highest court seems to have had theirfill of specious far-right legal claims. In a back-and-forth between Slate's Mark Joseph Stern and Dahlia Lithwick, Stern noted the fact that a proposed review of the Tingley v. Ferguson case received only three votes from a court with a six-to-three conservative to liberal membership. That rebuke of the case that needed only four…

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