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Brielle Morton

Brielle Morton is a Voting Rights Trainer for the Prepared to Vote and Voting Rights Defender Projects. She has two years of experience working in state policy advocacy in Maryland. Before joining LDF, Brielle interned for the Public Policy Department of the ACLU of Maryland working on topics including voting rights, police accountability, and education […]

Briceno v. Williams: Qualified Immunity

Briceno v. Williams Challenging Qualified Immunity As Mr. Briceno was helping his mobility-impaired friend cross the street, San Diego Police Officer Blake Williams arrived, exited his police vehicle, and began to approach Mr. Briceno while issuing commands. Mr. Briceno provided Officer Williams with his personal identification card, but Officer Williams then pushed, grabbed, and punched […]

Briana Rheubottom

Breonna Taylor, Amir Locke, and the Dangers of No Knock Warrant Executions

Justice in Public Safety Breonna Taylor, Amir Locke, and the Dangers of Warrant Executions By John Guzman Communications Associate— Police Accountability Two years ago, Breonna Taylor went to sleep; and, nearly two months ago, Amir Locke did the same. The commonplace, tranquil act of falling asleep in one’s own home should not have ended in […]

Brenda Wright

Brenda Wright joined LDF as Special Counsel for Litigation and Policy in May 2023. She has worked for over two decades to protect and advance the right to vote through litigation, policy development, research, and writing, with a focus on racial justice in voting rights. Her extensive experience in federal court litigation includes two arguments […]

Braxton et al., v. Stokes et al: Challenging Racial Discrimination In Newbern, Alabama’s Electoral Practices

Case: Political Participation, Redistricting Braxton Et Al., V. Stokes Et Al Challenging Racial Discrimination In Newbern, Alabama’s Electoral Practices Filed: November 2022 Settled: June 2024 Braxton et al., v. Stokes et al. was a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court Southern District of Alabama, that challenged racially discriminatory voting and electoral practices in […]

Bradford v. Maryland State Board of Education

Bradford v. Maryland State Board of Education Challenging Chronic, Unconstitutional Underfunding in Baltimore City Schools Legal Defense Fund, ACLU of Maryland, and BakerHostetler represent a group of parents of students attending public schools in Baltimore City in Bradford v. Maryland State Board of Education. Filed in 1994, the lawsuit challenges the Maryland State Board of […]

Botched Oklahoma Execution Highlights Barbarity of Capital Punishment

In the days and weeks leading up to last night’s horrifying execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma, there was much debate about the validity of the call for transparency in execution procedures.  Some contended that allowing Oklahoma to rely on a new and experimental drug protocol, which relied on drugs whose source the State refused […]

Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia: LGBTQ Workplace Discrimination

In July 2019, LDF joined the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and 56 of the nation’s premier civil rights organizations as amici curiae in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, and two companion cases, to urge the Court to recognize that the workplace anti-discrimination protections in Title […]