The fact that Alito is so quick to turn to such a noxious legal character reveals a lot, particularly about how he's willing to revere the past and elevate tradition to a high altar.

The Supreme Court did so much work in the 70s, 80s, '90s, and aughts – dismantling legal traditions rooted in our past sexism, racism, and homophobia – elevating the human right to self-determination to an altar far higher than the altar of tradition.

This court is set to smash all of that, not just in overturning decisions protecting human rights, but in dismantling the legal reasoning that makes it possible to judicially protect human rights.

If this draft decision becomes final in close to the same form it's in now, women's rights in the United States will have been devastated. But so will our nation's status as a liberal democracy that PRIORITIZES human rights.

If the courts cannot protect human rights, then minorities will be at the mercy of the tyranny of the majority.

Our founders, flawed as they were, warned us about this. We had better listen.