It is easy to overlook, but attentive visitors to George and Martha Washington’s tomb at Mount Vernon will notice a small stone above their graves, etched with these words from John 11: “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” Though subtle, this piece of history reminds us of the distinct importance that America’s Founding Fathers placed on Christianity, particularly our Lord’s passion and resurrection. As Christians around the country reflect on that same story this Easter, we should resolve to transform our gratitude—for the political freedoms that our Founding Fathers fought for and the spiritual freedom that Christ died for—into action. Specifically, we should call on our political leaders to use the tools of statecraft at their disposal to support and defend Christian communities around the world that are facing persecution.

While limiting strings-attached grants and curbing federal regulation, President Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Department of Education also take aim at a key tool bureaucrats use to oversee schools in all 50 states: civil rights investigations.

A conservative government oversight non-profit organization has filed an ethics complaint against Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) for “assisting a foreign terrorist organization” with his trip to El Salvador to meet with deported alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), the American Accountability Foundation demanded that the secretary of the Senate be instructed “not to foot the bill for Van Hollen’s trip” and called for the Senate Ethics Committee to open “an immediate investigation.”

Convicted FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith — whom Judge James Boasberg gave a slap on the wrist for his crimes years before becoming a public foe of President Donald Trump’s deportation policies — was more deeply involved in the deeply flawed Crossfire Hurricane investigation than previously known. Clinesmith, who worked on both the FBI’s Hillary Clinton email investigation and on the Trump-Russia collusion inquiry, pleaded guilty to falsifying a document during the bureau’s efforts to renew FISA authority to wiretap Carter Page, who was an adviser to Trump's 2016 campaign.