
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.
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
EPPC Scholars Meet with Federal Officials to Oppose TANF Program Rule that Targets Pro-Life Pregnancy…
Eric Kniffin, Rachel N. Morrison
On Monday, April 8, 2024, EPPC scholars Eric Kniffin and Rachel N. Morrison met with government officials in the Executive…
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PDF / May 27, 2024
PWFA Rule Keeps Abortion Accommodations and Fulfills EEOC Wish List
Rachel N. Morrison
The Commission was broadly dismissive of concerns raised by religious and pro-life employers.
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The Federalist Society / May 23, 2024
The White House’s Title IX Bait-and-Switch
Rachel N. Morrison
If Biden really wanted to support women’s sports, he wouldn’t gut Title IX protections for female athletes.
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Newsweek / May 20, 2024
EPPC Scholar Files Brief Urging Court to Protect Religious Employers
Rachel N. Morrison
On April 22, 2024, an amicus brief was filed on behalf of EPPC Scholar Rachel N. Morrison in the Seventh Circuit in…
PDF / April 24, 2024
Leaving Abortion to the States Requires Federal Action
Eric Kniffin, Rachel N. Morrison
Trump would have to undo a series of ‘workaround’ regulations Biden imposed to evade the law.
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Wall Street Journal / April 23, 2024
EPPC Scholar Meets with Federal Officials to Share Concerns with EEOC’s Guidance on Workplace Harassment
Rachel N. Morrison
On Thursday, April 18, 2024, EPPC scholar Rachel N. Morrison met with government officials in the Executive Office of the President…
PDF / April 18, 2024
EPPC Scholars File Brief in Support of Tennessee Title X Funding
Eric Kniffin, Rachel N. Morrison
On April 12, 2024, EPPC Fellows Rachel N. Morrison and Eric Kniffin filed an amicus brief in the Sixth Circuit Court…
PDF / April 12, 2024
When Public Comment Matters
Rachel N. Morrison
Just because comments won’t change everything doesn’t mean they won’t change some things.
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National Review / April 8, 2024
The Biden Administration’s Dubious Record on Conscience Rights
Rachel N. Morrison
More than two dozen federal conscience laws protect health-care workers who object to participating in abortion or certain other medical interventions against their religious beliefs or moral convictions.
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National Review / April 3, 2024