Letter: Kavanaugh’s confirmation will inflict long-ranging harm on our rights

(Andrew Harnik | The Associated Press) President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, leaves for a lunch break while appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018.Upon the inevitable confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, conservatives will have achieved ultimate victory in the cultural-political war of our lifetime. It’s all over but the shouting.

Decades of progressive social changes never possible through legislation, starting with school desegregation in the mid-1950s through a woman’s right to choose and up to marriage equality today, will all come to a full stop with the most solidly…