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.

The Biden administration repeatedly called on the U.S. Supreme Court to choose censorship and discrimination over the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty.  

An MRC report detailed how, under President Joe Biden, the Office of the Solicitor General launched a four-year long campaign to get courts to rewrite the First Amendment so it would instead protect censorship and squash speech.

The Biden administration’s efforts to censor religious speech were not limited to guidance letters and lobbying the U.S. Supreme Court. The administration also deployed more direct, immediate methods to silence Christians.  

Under President Joe Biden and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, the Census Bureau’s Trust & Safety Team focused on identifying and censoring speech the Commerce Department claimed was mis- or dis-information.

Blockchain-based speech offers exciting opportunities for new communication networks.

Most censorship victims are simply silenced. The most egregious manifestations of censorship, though, require others to declare something they do not wish to say. Thankfully, our Constitution prevents such censorship. As the U.S. Supreme Court…