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.

Futurist and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is the owner of aerospace firm SpaceX, purchased the social media platform Twitter (now X) and began using it to advocate for greater free speech rights. A group of SpaceX employees began to circulate…

After businessman and futurist Elon Musk purchased Twitter, renamed it X and declared it a haven for “free speech,” the NLRB tried to censor his actions directly (see Initiative #53). Other Biden administration agencies tried a different tact:…

As this report has detailed, the Biden censorship initiatives were vast, varied and spanned dozens upon dozens of government bureaus and agencies. The Murthy v. Missouri litigation alone provided 162 pages of formal documentation of censorship…

In the lame duck period before Biden left office, his administration acted in contravention of Congress to hide career bureaucrats doing censorship work in various sub-cabinet agencies. This means that while Biden is gone, his censorship…

In the lame duck period before Biden left office, his administration acted in contravention of Congress to hide career bureaucrats doing censorship work in various sub-cabinet agencies. This means that while Biden is gone, his censorship…

Unfortunately, the Biden administration was at least partly successful in its effort to get courts to rewrite the First Amendment (see Initiative #40). In Murthy v. Missouri, the U.S. Supreme Court aggressively limited censorship victims’…