Rachel N. Morrison

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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

EPPC Files Ninth Circuit Amicus Brief in Support of Idaho’s Pro-Life Abortion Law

Rachel N. Morrison

On September 20, 2024, EPPC filed an amicus brief in United States v. Idaho in support of Idaho’s pro-life abortion…

Articles

PDF / September 26, 2024

EPPC Files Ninth Circuit Amicus Brief in Support of World Vision’s Right to Hire Employees…

Rachel N. Morrison

On August 28, 2024, EPPC filed an amicus brief in World Vision v. McMahon, in support of religious organizations’ rights…

Articles

PDF / September 4, 2024