I don’t expect much from the Episcopal Church, but it still speaks volumes when a bishop refuses to condemn the invasion of a church service. Last weekend, a group of agitators invaded Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, taking over the sanctuary, terrifying children, and chanting, “Who shut this down? We shut this down!” It wasn’t a peaceful protest. It wasn’t a demonstration. It was a horde of Vandals entering the sanctuary and coopting it for their political agenda. Such an attack reminds me more of the sack of Rome than Martin Luther King, Jr. This is not peaceful protest. This is an invasion of a sacred space. Anti-ICE agitators disrupted Cities Church in the middle of service. Warning: the agitators on the Left are serious. The man who posted this video bragged about doing this—comparing it to Jesus flipping over… pic.twitter.com/BeeIdubpwM— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) January 19, 2026 It doesn’t matter that the agitators claimed one of the church’s pastors is the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in St. Paul. It doesn’t matter that they claimed to be opposing ICE. There isn’t even evidence of that particular pastor’s presence at this service—and that wouldn’t justify agitators harassing him there, anyway. It certainly doesn’t justify them disrupting the First Amendment rights of others in the congregation. Law enforcement has arrested at least three of the ringleaders behind this invasion, and I pray that more arrests are coming—because activists need to learn that this is unacceptable. You don’t bring your political demands into the sanctity of a church in the middle of worship. I can’t believe that message even needs to be said, but apparently, it does. Sadly, they it seems won’t be hearing it from the leadership of the Episcopal Church. Episcopal Bishop Carries Water for Church Invaders On Friday, CNN’s Audie Cornish asked Craig Loya, the Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, how he responded to concerns about the invasion of Cities Church. “People are also looking at images of a protest in a church, people going in and saying look, the pastor’s affiliated with ICE or whatever they believe, and interrupting services,” Cornish noted. “Do you think that was the right thing to do?” When presented with this question, the very least a commonsense American can say is, “No.” I would argue that Americans, in the spirit of the First Amendment, are duty-bound to say more. I would argue that American religious leaders should full-throatedly condemn the invasion of a church service in pursuit of a political agenda. This is a house of God, and the agitators sought to turn it into a raucous protest. The “right reverend” Loya did none of that, however. Instead, he carried water for the agitators, suggesting that the invasion might have been justified because ICE has been deporting illegal aliens in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. “I think part of what you’re seeing in that protest speaks to the depth of pain that people are experiencing right now in Minnesota,” the bishop said. “And the, really, desperation and longing to end what ICE is doing in our communities and to many of us and our neighbors.” Episcopal ‘Logic’ Sure, these agitators harassed innocent Christians as they sought to worship God. Sure, they coopted a church service and bragged about shutting it down. Sure, they probably violated the law by depriving their fellow Americans of their First Amendment right to exercise their religion. But, you’ve got to understand the deep trauma they experienced at the hands of ICE. They’ve been whipped up into a frenzy by the legacy media’s lies about ICE detaining a 5-year-old or any of the long list of false accusations. They’ve been radicalized by Gov. Tim Walz’s suggestion that President Donald Trump is at war with Minnesota and that ICE is an “occupation.” They just can’t stand the fact that we have laws in this country, and the horrible thought that illegal aliens who broke them—especially when those illegals have also committed other crimes—should be deported. Never mind the pastor asking the agitators to leave, and facing a classic situation of trespass. Never mind the congregants who gathered to worship, but found themselves surrounded by shouting activists. Never mind the children who are holding close to their parents as radicals shout at them in the middle of a church service. All that “pain” is apparently inconsequential to this church “leader” who does not deserve the title of “reverend.” There’s nothing “right” about his willingness to carry water for this atrocity. I’ve said it before, and I expect I’ll be saying it again many times: Thank God I left the Episcopal Church. The post Episcopal Bishop Refuses to Condemn Church Service Invasion appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Over 1,000 students, alumni, and members of campus groups at Georgetown and George Washington University signed a petition to block the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement from participating in a law school job fair.  “ICE is a fascist organization, tasked with carrying out ethnic cleansing, family separation, and extreme brutality and violence,” states a letter to the deans of the two universities’ law schools.   Georgetown and George Washington University are hosting the Public Sector Recruiting Program on Friday, a virtual career fair for law students interested in public sector jobs, The Hoya, Georgetown University’s oldest student-run paper, reports.   The petition claims that ICE is “violating the human rights of immigrant communities and obfuscating the fact that the United States is a country stolen from Indigenous communities and built by enslaving Black people.” The law schools did not honor the request. Representatives of the two agencies were still permitted to attend the career fair, according to the Georgetown Voice, another student-run newspaper.   As a result of ICE and DHS participating in the job fair, multiple groups, including the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, chose not to participate in the career fair, The Georgetown Voice reports.   The push to block the agencies came as the Trump administration continues large scale immigration enforcement operations in cities across the U.S. despite protests and increased threats against immigration officials.   Since Trump returned to the White House just over a year ago, ICE agents are facing a 1,300% increase in assaults and an 8,000% increase in death threats, according to the homeland security department.   Minneapolis has become a flashpoint for anti-ICE protests following an ICE-involved shooting on Jan. 7 that left 37-year-old Renee Good dead.  Good, according to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, attempted to use her vehicle as a weapon against the ICE agent. Some eyewitnesses and Democratic officials disputed that account, saying Good attempted to drive away from agents.  As recently as Friday morning, protesters gathered outside a federal building in Minneapolis where Greg Bovino, U.S. Border Patrol commander, and Marcos Charles, ICE Executive Assistant Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations, held a press conference to discuss immigration enforcement operations in the city.   “They’re trying to … impede us from getting out of the building and going to do our mission,” Charles said. “I will tell you right now, they’re going to fail, because no matter what they put up in front of us, we are here to do a job to protect this community, to protect Minnesotans, and to keep the criminal legal aliens off the street.”  The post Law Students Circulate Petition to Ban ICE From Job Fair appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Tens of thousands of pro-life demonstrators filled Washington, D.C., on Friday for the 53rd annual March for Life, an event that once again drew national attention as participants rallied around the 2026 theme, “Life Is a Gift.” The march proceeded from the National Mall toward the U.S. Supreme Court, with crowds composed of families, school groups, church communities, and college students moving in steady formation despite the brisk winter weather. Among the most intriguing visuals of the day were the signs marchers carried—an enduring hallmark of the event. Many featured concise, Scripture-based messages such as “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you” and “I am fearfully and wonderfully made,” while others showcased hand-drawn illustrations designed to emphasize the humanity of the unborn. These standout designs, ranging from bold text to detailed artwork, helped define the atmosphere of the march and underscored the personal motivations of those participating. The strong turnout year’s signage contributed to what organizers and observers regarded as a successful demonstration. With tens of thousands participating and the event’s theme prominently reflected throughout the march, the 2026 gathering underscored the continued momentum of the pro-life movement and its ability to mobilize supporters nationwide. The post Top 25 Signs at the March for Life 2026 appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The massive crowd gathered in Washington for Friday’s March for Life. But what was the pro-life movement like in the early days after Roe v. Wade? Pro-life activist and former president of the Charlotte Lozier Institute Chuck Donovan joined Jack Fowler to discuss the surprising “diverse” coalition of the early post-Roe, pro-life movement, as well as more contemporary battles within a now post-Roe world on this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” Subscribe to VDH’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.  The post The Early, Ideological Diversity of the Pro-Life Movement appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Roe v. Wade would have turned 53 years old on Jan. 22 had the Supreme Court not overturned the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson. The Supreme Court justices, and the presidents who nominated them, deserve many thanks. But perhaps another unlikely figure deserves some thanks, too: the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his decision to nuke the filibuster on certain presidential nominees. Long before the the Dobbs v. Jackson decision was handed down in 2022, Reid laid the groundwork through the changes he made to Senate rules. Reid opened Pandora’s box, and the pro-life movement took advantage of it. Reid, who, like many other Democrats, became increasingly pro-choice over the course of his Senate career, supported nuking the filibuster on some presidential nominees in 2013. Frustrated with impediments to confirming then President Barack Obama’s nominees, Reid convinced enough of his fellow Democrats to invoke the nuclear option so that breaking a filibuster to confirm Cabinet officials and certain judicial nominees could be done by a simple majority, rather than the 60 votes typically required to end debate before the final confirmation vote. It was a narrow vote of 48-52 in the Senate on Nov. 21, 2013 that sealed the fate of Roe almost a decade later. No Republicans voted to nuke the filibuster that November day. They were joined by three Democrats—Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Mark Pryor of Arkansas. Following the vote, then Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., issued his memorable reply: “I say to my friends on the other side of the aisle, you will regret this, and you may regret it a lot sooner than you think.” McConnell’s prophetic words came to fruition. Less than four years later, President Donald Trump was in office for his first term and looking to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia. The Republican-controlled Senate blocked former President Barack Obama from filling Scalia’s seat. Obama had nominated Merrick Garland—who would later become former President Joe Biden’s infamous attorney general—for the high court. Neil Gorsuch was announced as the nominee on Jan. 31, 2017. On April 6, McConnell expanded Reid’s scrapping of the Senate filibuster to allow the nuclear option for Supreme Court nominees. Gorsuch was confirmed by a vote of 54-46, with no Democratic support. Still, more needed to happen before Dobbs. Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett would be nominated and confirmed to the court after the retirement of former Justice Anthony Kennedy in 2018 and the death of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020. The justices nominated by Trump, and reviled and vilified by Democrats, would almost certainly have not gotten confirmed without the nuclear option. On May 17, 2021, after numerous delays, the justices finally decided that they would hear the Dobbs case, centered around Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban. On July 22, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch asked the justices to overturn Roe v. Wade, once thought unthinkable. Oral arguments were on December 1. While the decision wasn’t officially handed down until June 24, 2022, the draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito to overturn Roe was leaked on May 2, 2022. After the leak, conservative justices were targeted by radicals. Nicholas Roske even plotted to assassinate Kavanaugh and potentially other justices. He was convicted and sentenced last October. But the justices did not budge. Would Trump have been able to get other justices confirmed? Would other nominees have voted to overturn Roe? These are hypotheticals that the pro-life movement, fortunately, does not have to face. The movement has enough to keep busy with changing hearts and minds, as well as saving babies and their mothers from abortion. The path to overturning Roe was nothing short of miraculous. Some would even say providential. And while the justices, Trump, and the Republicans in Congress deserve credit for these pro-life victories, don’t forget Harry Reid. The post It Might Surprise You, But Here’s How Harry Reid Helped End Roe appeared first on The Daily Signal.