Washington, D.C. – Today, on the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander released the following statement:

“The right to vote is the fundamental right from which all of our rights flow. As we mark the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, we’ve got a lot of work to do to protect voting rights. We’re up against a wide range of determined and well-resourced attacks. I’ve never been more motivated to be doing this work on behalf of New Hampshire because I really believe American democracy depends on it.”

Congresswoman Goodlander has dedicated her life to serving New Hampshire and our country. Before taking the oath of office, she served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, a professor of constitutional law at the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth, a lawyer in the fight for voting rights with the New Hampshire Campaign for Voting Rights, and a law clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer on the United States Supreme Court.

In Congress, she is helping lead legislation and other efforts to protect voting rights. She is an original cosponsor of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, legislation to restore and modernize the protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and prevent new barriers to the ballot box from being created. She voted against the so-called SAVE Act, partisan legislation that would jeopardize the right of thousands of American citizens to vote.

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