SCOTUS sending signals to conservatives they're not going to

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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 affirmative votes, he stated, was telling.

"So when Tingley hit the docket, a lot of us thought it was time for a showdown,' Stern admitted before adding, "But that didn’t happen. Three justices—Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh—would’ve taken up the case. And since it takes four votes to hear an appeal, that means John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett voted against taking it up."

"That’s quite surprising, again, because those three justices are pretty far right when it comes to these First Amendment protections for religious speech and for laws that allegedly target conservative Christians. This case seemed to serve up those issues on a silver platter," he added.

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