{"id":3565,"date":"2025-07-18T19:30:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3565"},"modified":"2025-07-18T19:30:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:30:56","slug":"guy-trump-appointed-to-olc-is-fetal-personhood-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/guy-trump-appointed-to-olc-is-fetal-personhood-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Trump Appointed to OLC is Fetal Personhood Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has apparently appointed a Colorado lawyer named Joshua Craddock to serve as his deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joshjcraddock\/status\/1940416448062501204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a Twitter post by Craddock announcing the appointment earlier this month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As my colleague Josh Kovensky pointed out to me earlier today, Craddock has made the case for reading fetal personhood ideology into the Fourteenth Amendment; versions of fetal personhood contend that life begins at, or even before, conception. It has bolstered much of the Christian right\u2019s most extreme anti-abortion activism over the years. In a May 2025 Catholic University Law Review article on the 2022 <em>Dobbs<\/em> ruling that overturned <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, Craddock unpacked his beliefs about the \u201cunsettled questions\u201d that supposedly \u201cremain about the constitutional status of unborn children\u201d in <em>Roe\u2019s<\/em> wake.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/where-things-stand\/trump-wants-alpha-twitter-troll-who-says-straight-white-males-are-persecuted-to-be-ambassador-to-malaysia\">Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has apparently appointed a Colorado lawyer named Joshua Craddock to serve as his deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ, according to a Twitter post by Craddock announcing the appointment earlier this month. As my colleague Josh Kovensky pointed out to me earlier today, Craddock has made the &#8230; <a title=\"Guy Trump Appointed to OLC is Fetal Personhood Advocate\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/guy-trump-appointed-to-olc-is-fetal-personhood-advocate\/\" aria-label=\"More on Guy Trump Appointed to OLC is Fetal Personhood Advocate\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[409,104,137,605],"class_list":["post-3565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-14th-amendment","tag-fetal-personhood","tag-gop","tag-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}