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.
A Year of Assaults from Biden’s HHS
Rachel N. Morrison
President Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra have launched unprecedented attacks on people of faith.
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The Federalist / March 22, 2022
Religious Liberty Alert: Faith-Based Nonprofits and Forthcoming HHS Rules
Rachel N. Morrison
HHS plans to finalize two rules that would pose serious religious liberty concerns.
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Napa Legal Institute / March 21, 2022
An Open Letter to HHS Secretary Becerra on Ending the Covid-19 Public Health “Emergency”
Aaron Kheriaty, Aaron Rothstein, Rachel N. Morrison, Roger Severino, Ryan T. Anderson
Human flourishing requires both public health and individual liberty and an appropriate balance between these goods when they conflict. We know that human beings flourish in community; we are social by nature. As such, we should not be surprised that government Covid-19 regulations mandating school closures, lockdowns, masking, and vaccination have isolated us from our fellow citizens and imposed significant attendant harms. It is time to declare this emergency over and once again let people take responsibility for themselves.
Public Discourse / March 18, 2022
EPPC Scholars Submit Public Comment Opposing OSHA’s Unlawful Vaccine Mandate
Aaron Kheriaty, David Gortler, Rachel N. Morrison, Roger Severino
EPPC scholars Roger Severino, Rachel N. Morrison, Dr. David Gortler, and Dr. Aaron Kheriaty submitted a public comment opposing finalization of OSHA’s rule that would mandate COVID-19 vaccination in workplaces.
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Publications / January 20, 2022
EPPC Scholars Submit Public Comment Opposing Proposal to Eliminate Protections for Faith-Based Contractors
Rachel N. Morrison, Roger Severino
EPPC scholars Roger Severino and Rachel N. Morrison submitted a public comment opposing a proposal by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to rescind various protections for faith-based contractors that allow them to partner with the federal government and serve the American people without having to abandon tenets of their faith or their religious identity.
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Publications / December 10, 2021
EPPC Scholar Files Second Circuit Brief Supporting Challenge to Lack of Religious Exemptions in New…
Rachel N. Morrison
EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison filed a second amici brief in Dr. A. v. Hochul—a case challenging the lack of religious exemptions in New York’s vaccine mandate—but this time in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Publications / December 9, 2021
EPPC Scholar Files Supreme Court Brief Supporting Challenge to Lack of Religious Exemptions in New…
Rachel N. Morrison
EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison filed a motion and proposed Supreme Court amici brief in support of an emergency application challenging New York’s vaccine mandate.
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Publications / November 16, 2021
When Are Religious Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Required?
Rachel N. Morrison
Maine’s flat denial of religious accommodations for employees who object to receiving COVID-19 vaccines is not only unusual, it is unlawful.
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National Review Online / November 10, 2021
Twelve States Stand up to Becerra’s Efforts to Fund Planned Parenthood Under Title X
Rachel N. Morrison
A group of twelve states led by Ohio has sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Secretary Xavier Becerra over new Title X regulations that would take family-planning money away from the states and give it to America’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.
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National Review Online / November 9, 2021