Perry Grossman

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Perry Grossman is the Director of the Voting Rights Project at the New York Civil Liberties Union. His work focuses on litigation, policy, and organizing efforts to make political participation more equitable and inclusive. Perry was one of the principal architects of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York and was lead counsel for the plaintiffs in New York Communities for Change v. County of Nassau, the first redistricting case brought under a state voting rights act. Perry’s cases have included successful challenges to the Trump Administration’s efforts to put a citizenship question on the 2020 Census and to exclude undocumented immigrants from Congressional apportionment; racial vote dilution in NAACP v. East Ramapo Central School District; and voter suppression in drive-thru voting, absentee voting, early voting, and ballot challenges. Perry has an ongoing federal constitutional challenge to New York’s lifetime ban on eligibility for jury service by people with prior felony convictions. As a supervising attorney in the NYCLU legal department, Perry also leads, supervises, and supports cases involving a diverse set of civil rights and civil liberties issues, including those addressing the denial of incarcerated people's access to counsel during a correctional officers strike; the NYPD's policing of racial justice protests; the intersection of civic participation and gun regulations; and law enforcement misconduct in immigration enforcement, among other areas. Perry served a law clerk to the Hon. Barry G. Silverman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has also been an occasional contributor to Slate on legal issues.

Education

  • BA, Swarthmore College
  • JD, Stanford Law School