Reversing reparations. The Trump Justice Department is suing Evanston, Illinois, to stop a first-of-its-kind reparations program that has handed out more than $5 million to about 600 Black residents who said they were hurt by housing discrimination.

The suburb of Chicago has begun paying residents who say they or their ancestors were victims of the city’s discriminatory zoning ordinances from 1919 until 1969.

Advocates hope to extend such programs to other cities, saying the vestiges of slavery and discrimination have resulted in a “wealth gap” and other residual harm to Black Americans.

The DOJ’s lawsuit could end the national reparations movement, marking a reversal from the Biden administration, which supported studying reparations and focused its Civil Rights Division and other departments on diversity, equity and inclusion.

The Education Department, what’s left of it, is moving oversight of special education services and civil rights out of the agency to other parts of the government as part of the Trump administration’s effort to shutter the department.

The Justice Department will now handle civil rights enforcement and student privacy protection, while the Department of Health and Human Services takes over special education initiatives for students with disabilities.

“The Trump administration has been clear: as we scale back federal micromanaging when it hinders success, we are equally committed to bolstering the efficiency of federal oversight where it is essential,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said.

She said moving civil rights enforcement to the Justice Department will ensure a stronger, more coordinated effort and “robust protection for student privacy.”

The Education Department’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and its Office for Civil Rights handle some of the department’s most sensitive cases, including complaints that students have been discriminated against based on their race, national origin, gender or disability status.

Same team? Mr. Trump forced Senate Republicans to postpone a confirmation hearing for Director of National Intelligence nominee Jay Clayton and demanded that they instead approve his long-sought election integrity bill along with the reauthorization of a key spy law.

The president said Republicans “fell into a trap” set by Democrats when they agreed to speed through Mr. Clayton’s confirmation without getting anything in return.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, called the president’s move “regrettable.” The action ensures that Trump loyalist William J. Pulte will take over as acting DNI as planned.

It’s the latest clash between the president and Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota over issues such as the Secure America Act, ending the filibuster and halting the Senate “blue slip” tradition of senators blocking undesirable nominees in their home states.

Republicans have chosen Dallas for September’s first-of-its-kind midterm convention, according to Senate candidate Ken Paxton.

Mr. Paxton, the Texas attorney general who is the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, told listeners in a Monday tele-town hall that the Republican National Committee picked Dallas for the convention ahead of the November elections.

He also said Mr. Trump is expected to speak at the event.

Republicans have been planning the unusual midterm convention for several months, hoping it will boost voter turnout and enthusiasm.

Plotting to pack. Perhaps putting their cart before the midterm horse, Democrats are plotting to control the third branch of government by forcing conservative Supreme Court justices off the bench and diluting their vote by packing the court.

Party leaders are watching poll numbers that show the majority of Democrats are fed up with the Supreme Court and favor imposing term limits or adding justices.

“We have to do [something] with the Supreme Court, that is now a rogue Supreme Court,” former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a likely 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, told attendees at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition convention.

With six Republican-nominated justices and three from Democratic presidents, the high court infuriated Democrats with a string of rulings, among them the 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion. The court also handed down a presidential immunity ruling that protected Mr. Trump from prosecution and, most recently, tossed out parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, paving the way for Republicans to redraw congressional maps ahead of the November midterm elections.

Democrats accuse the high court of “legislating from the bench,” and the decisions are not going their way.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of an occasional marijuana user, saying the government went too far in prosecuting him as a habitual drug addict who faces a lifetime ban on possessing a gun.

The unanimous ruling said as much about relaxing attitudes toward marijuana as it did about gun rights, with the justices comparing modern pot use to the use of alcohol at the nation’s founding.

Justices across the ideological spectrum said it was a stretch for prosecutors to argue that someone who used marijuana a few times a week and kept a firearm at home ostensibly for personal defense was enough of a danger to the community to justify a potential 15-year prison sentence.

The ruling could upend some past cases of others convicted of gun possession by illegal drug users.

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman filed three lawsuits against companies operating sweepstakes casinos and prediction markets, accusing them of offering gambling products to Kentuckians while skirting state licensing, taxes and consumer protections.

The move thrusts the home of the Kentucky Derby — and a state whose gambling laws have long been shaped by the racing industry — into the national fight over who regulates prediction markets, putting the Trump administration at odds with a Republican-leaning state.

It also answers a lawsuit filed last week by a coalition of prediction market companies challenging Kentucky’s new 14.25% tax on their transaction fees.

Mr. Coleman’s office is targeting prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket, along with VGW and its sweepstakes casino platforms — Chumba Casino, Global Poker and LuckyLand Slots — in three circuit-court filings.

Prediction markets let customers buy and sell event contracts, a type of derivative tied to real-world outcomes such as elections or economic indicators.

The state argues the platforms are simply unlicensed gambling operations.

Michael McKenna predicts there will not be a blue wave in the midterms, thanks to the Democrats’ inability to run “a more normal set of candidates.”

Jed Babbin argues that turning Mr. Trump’s distrust of the intelligence community into a healthy skepticism would benefit the nation in the last two years of his presidency.

The Bidens are doing themselves a disservice with their current media blitz trying to salvage Joe Biden’s legacy, writes Joseph Curl.