And that they don t rightly overturn opinions that they ve issued in the past, especially on matters of wide concern to the american public. this is not some trivia area of business or tax law. this is an issue that affects, you know, tens of millions, maybe more than 100 million americans. and so what alito tries to do here is to almost ridicule the supreme court s opinion in roe v. wade from 1973 which paints it as so trivial and so poorly reasoned that the court should not have qualms about striking it down. and that language about being egregiously wrong is very interesting if you trace it back in recent opinions the court, that s the kind of thing that debuts to overrule plessy versus ferguson, in terms of immigration. he s tried to linked it to the past where the court has said, you know, we got an issue