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.

White House Senior Advisor for the COVID-19 Response Andy Slavitt aggressively pressured Amazon to ban books critical of the government’s position on vaccination and the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the New York Post. He also insisted Facebook…

The Biden administration’s demands that private businesses silence dissent on the government’s COVID-19 policies were not limited to tech firms. Even Trader Joe’s was expected to uphold the Biden speech codes. 

COVID-19 was not the only subject the Biden administration declared verboten. The administration acted aggressively to suppress concerns related to election integrity. 

In addition to ordering Big Tech to censor its critics, the Biden administration also censored the Big Tech companies themselves from speaking out about its coercion. 

The State Department’s work with a foreign engineer to create what, according to Fox News, was labeled an “Enemies List.” The list targeted those who opposed censorship, such as President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Michael Knowles, Elon…

An MRC report detailed how, under President Joe Biden, the military was used to attack the free speech rights of Americans, chilling future dissent of his authoritarian administration.