Editors' Notes: Court Reform is Table Stakes

We will have a lot to say about the Supreme Court decisions from this week. We have someone working on articles about some of them, and are seeking writers to talk about some of the others. It was a big, largely terrible week, even when the majority decision went the right way, as it did in the birthright citizenship case. It is quite easy to imagine a world where Sotomayor dies unexpectedly in the next few months and we end up with a Court majority willing to abolish birthright citizenship.

It is imperative that the next Democratic trifecta implement a court reform package that defangs these lawless, Trumpist judges. In some ways it is not the most important task that needs to be accomplished to see us through this crisis, but in others it is the most important, because we cannot reliably do the others without tending to this one first.