A brief comment:
The impending loss of the courts, though tragic, masks a deeper problem: dependence on the courts for civil rights victories can actually be a mistake.
To much of America, it seems that the Leave It To Beaver world around them has been changed against their will, without even consultation. This has been whipped up nicely into resentment against the courts, which are, rightly or wrongly, blamed for this transformation. The fruition of that resentment is what you saw yesterday.
So this suggests to me that victories through the courts, or at least through the courts alone, are inherently tenuous. This is particularly the case for gender issues. Feminists etc won early through the courts, but they never made the effort to connect and reconcile with Joe Sixpack. I'm not sure whether this was possible, but I'm not sure they ever made the effort. Joe Sixpack and his wife became an uncontrollable nemesis.
Was this inevitable?