Michael McHale received a B.A. in Journalism and History from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with high distinction in 2009, and a J.D. from the University of Nebraska College of Law with distinction in 2012. Prior to joining TMS, Michael served as general counsel and policy analyst for the Nebraska Catholic Conference, where he testified before several committees of the Nebraska Legislature defending the constitutionality of school vouchers, tax-credit scholarships, and Nebraska’s parental consent statute for abortion-seeking minors. From 2018 to 2019, he clerked for the Honorable L. Steven Grasz on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Michael is a Blackstone Legal Fellow with Alliance Defending Freedom. His writings on the rights to life and religious freedom have appeared in the Witherspoon Institute’s online journal, Public Discourse, along with the Omaha World-Herald and the Lincoln Journal Star. He has also completed pre-theology studies as a seminarian at St. Gregory the Great Seminary, where he studied philosophy and natural law.