
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.
EPPC Scholars File Amicus Brief Supporting Tennessee’s Title X Funding
Eric Kniffin, Rachel N. Morrison
On October 16, 2024, EPPC fellows Eric Kniffin and Rachel N. Morrison filed an amicus brief in Tennessee v. HHS, in support of…
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PDF / October 18, 2024
EPPC Files Ninth Circuit Amicus Brief in Support of Idaho’s Pro-Life Abortion Law
Eric Kniffin, 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…
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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…
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PDF / September 4, 2024
EPPC Amicus Brief Urges Court to Recognize States’ Standing to Challenge Rule Promoting Abortion Accommodations
Eric Kniffin, Rachel N. Morrison
On July 25, 2024, EPPC scholars Rachel N. Morrison and Eric Kniffin filed an amicus brief on behalf of EPPC in…
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PDF / August 6, 2024
EPPC Scholar Files Fourth Circuit Brief Supporting Employee’s Religious Accommodation Rights
Rachel N. Morrison
On June 19, 2024, EPPC scholar Rachel N. Morrison filed an amicus brief in Barnett v. Inova Health Care Services, urging the Fourth…
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PDF / July 18, 2024
DOJ’s Significant Concessions in Idaho Abortion Case Are a Façade
Rachel N. Morrison
Let’s hope the Ninth Circuit sees through the Biden administration’s façade.
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National Review Online / July 17, 2024
SCOTUS DIGs Idaho Abortion Cases
Rachel N. Morrison
The Justices wrote four separate opinions elaborating on their votes.
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The Federalist Society / July 10, 2024
EPPC Amicus Brief Urges Supreme Court to Require Public Input on Agency Rulemaking
Eric Kniffin, Rachel N. Morrison
On June 14, 2024, EPPC filed an amicus brief in Chestek v. Vidal, urging the Supreme Court to hear a case involving whether the…
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PDF / June 29, 2024
EEOC’s Disdain for Religion — Part II
Rachel N. Morrison
The EEOC merely stated that requiring religious employers to do something that violates their religion “may” fundamentally alter the nature of their business “depending on the situation.”
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National Review Online / June 19, 2024
The EEOC’s Disdain for Religion
Rachel N. Morrison
Religious employers “may raise” religious defenses, and the EEOC will “take great care” in considering them.
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National Review Online / June 18, 2024
EPPC Scholars Meet with Government Officials to Oppose State Department Rules Imposing Expansive Nondiscrimination Requirements…
Eric Kniffin, Rachel N. Morrison
On Tuesday, May 28, 2024, EPPC scholars Rachel N. Morrison and Eric Kniffin met with government officials in the Executive Office of…
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PDF / May 30, 2024