Michael Morris
MRC Free Speech America Director

Michael B. Morris, Esq. has been MRC Free Speech America Director since November 2022. Prior to 2025, he also served as MRC Business Director. Before that, he served as MRC Free Speech America & MRC Business Managing Editor starting in January 2022. He first was MRC Free Speech America & MRC Business Associate Editor starting in October 2019.

Michael began his employment with the Media Research Center as Assistant Editor for Commentary at CNSNews.com in August 2014. In 2015, he was promoted to Commentary Editor for CNSNews.com and was responsible for soliciting and editing commentary for CNSNews.com's commentary section.

Michael is a graduate of Regent University School of Law, where he earned his Juris Doctorate. While attending Regent University School of Law, he served as Republican National Lawyer Association Regent University School of Law Chapter Vice Chair of Membership from September 2012 through April 2014 and on Regent University School of Law’s Honor Council during his 2L and 3L years. He also interned for then-Congressman J. Randy Forbes in 2012.

He is also a graduate of Indiana Wesleyan University, where he earned a double major in Political Science/Pre-Law and Economics. While earning his undergraduate degrees, Michael interned for then-Congressman, now former Vice President Mike Pence in 2010.

He was born and raised in Indiana, and he now lives in the suburbs with his wife near Washington, D.C.

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Chairman Gary Gensler’s Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a compelled speech rule that simultaneously threatened companies with massive liability if they permitted speech critical of the left’s position on climate change and…

The Biden administration dismantled the free speech protections President Donald Trump’s Department of Education had instituted. 

President Joe Biden’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) changed longstanding rules to censor private speech critical of Big Labor.  

President Joe Biden and his Federal Communications Commission (FCC) acted to transform a law that protected free speech into a law that assaulted it.