More than two weeks after Charlie Kirk, the conservative firebrand and close ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, his suspected killer is set to appear in court Monday – the next step on the lengthy road to a state trial.

The exception was Kirk’s widow, Erika, who said that she forgave Kirk’s killer because “it is what Christ did, and is what Charlie would do,” and that “the answer to hate is not hate.” Two days after Kirk had been shot and killed on a Utah college campus, though, she, too, had said that “the spiritual warfare is palpable.”

Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet, a close friend of Charlie Kirk, speaks with Fox News Digital about his friend's Christian legacy and the religious revival since his assassination.

This year’s Virginia governor’s race will test whether outrage over Charlie Kirk's death will galvanize Gen-Z conservatives to vote.

Kirk’s letter, dated May 2, communicated his alarm at the “record levels” of “anti-Israel and anti-Semetic trends” on social media. Before his murder, conservative activist Charlie Kirk wrote a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advising him on how to counter anti-Israel sentiments held by younger generations and win the “information war” being waged,

Before his death, Kirk’s views were often viewed as controversial. As an anti-abortion Christian, he routinely debated progressive liberals, Muslims, and the LGBT+ community, resulting in allegations of misogyny, Islamophobia, and homophobia.

Free speech experts say that when teachers speak in their personal capacity, even on school grounds but outside their official duties, they retain their right to comment on matters of public concern.

Parents reportedly protested at Lipscomb Academy after students were asked to remove red ties worn to commemorate Charlie Kirk, following his assassination.