
Rachel N. Morrison
Fellow
Rachel N. Morrison is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she directs EPPC’s Administrative State Accountability Project. An attorney, her legal and policy work focuses on religious liberty, health care rights of conscience, the right to life, nondiscrimination, and civil rights.
Rachel N. Morrison is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she directs EPPC’s Administrative State Accountability Project. An attorney, her legal and policy work focuses on religious liberty, health care rights of conscience, the right to life, nondiscrimination, and civil rights.
Before joining EPPC, Ms. Morrison served as an Attorney Advisor and Special Assistant to General Counsel Sharon Fast Gustafson at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), where she focused on religious discrimination issues and was a member of the General Counsel’s Religious Discrimination Work Group. Before that, she served as Litigation Counsel for Americans United for Life and as a Constitutional Law Fellow at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, defending the right to life and religious freedom for all. She also clerked on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Ms. Morrison’s legal analysis has been published in the Seton Hall Law Review, the Pepperdine Law Review, and the Ave Maria Law Review, as well as various other print media outlets.
Ms. Morrison earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the Pepperdine University School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as an editor for the Pepperdine Law Review and the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. She received her B.A. in Mathematics and Speech Communication, summa cum laude, from Whitworth University (Spokane, WA). She is a member of the District of Columbia and the Washington State bars.
Ms. Morrison lives with her husband and daughter in Virginia.
Biden-Harris Administration Withdraws Significant Proposed Rules
Rachel N. Morrison
In the waning days of the Biden-Harris administration, multiple agencies have announced that they are withdrawing proposed rules (detailed below)…
Articles
Federalist Society / January 16, 2025
EPPC Scholars Oppose Proposed Speech Code for DC Attorneys
Rachel N. Morrison
On January 13, 2024, EPPC scholars Rachel N. Morrison and Eric Kniffin submitted a comment letter to the District of…
Articles
PDF / January 14, 2025
EEOC Says Title VII’s Religious-Organization Exemption Doesn’t Apply to Sex Discrimination Claims
Rachel N. Morrison
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency tasked with preventing and remedying employment discrimination, recently filed an amicus brief in the…
Articles
National Review Online / December 18, 2024
EPPC Scholars Submit Comment on HHS’s Proposed Acquisition Regulation
Rachel N. Morrison
On December 2, 2024, EPPC scholars Rachel N. Morrison and Natalie Dodson submitted a public comment on the U.S. Department…
Articles
PDF / December 3, 2024
Resisting the deep state
Rachel N. Morrison
How a small team of attorneys is beating back federal agency overreach.
Articles, Interviews
WORLD / December 1, 2024
EPPC Scholars File Supreme Court Brief in Support of Texas’ Pornography Website Age Verification Law
Eric Kniffin
On November 22, 2024, EPPC fellows Eric Kniffin and Rachel N. Morrison filed a Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of EPPC…
Articles
PDF / November 25, 2024
EPPC Scholars Submit Comment Opposing HHS’s Interim Final Rule That Unlawfully Rewrites Sex Discrimination Regulations
Eric Kniffin
On November 1, 2024, EPPC scholars Eric Kniffin and Rachel Morrison submitted a public comment opposing an interim final rule (IFR)…
Articles
PDF / November 6, 2024
EPPC Scholars Submit Comment on USAID’s Anti-Harassment Notice
Rachel N. Morrison
On October 28, 2024, EPPC scholars Rachel N. Morrison and Natalie Dodson submitted a public comment on the U.S. Agency…
Articles
PDF / October 31, 2024
EPPC Files Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Clarify RFRA’s Substantial Burden Analysis
Eric Kniffin
On October 15, 2024, EPPC filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court, urging the Court to hear a case…
Articles
PDF / October 18, 2024
EPPC Scholars File Amicus Brief Supporting Tennessee’s Title X Funding
Eric Kniffin
On October 16, 2024, EPPC fellows Eric Kniffin and Rachel N. Morrison filed an amicus brief in Tennessee v. HHS, in support of…
Articles
PDF / October 18, 2024