Washington, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais:

“The right to vote is the fundamental right from which all of our rights flow. The Supreme Court’s decision to dilute the voting rights and power of freedom-loving Americans by gutting critical provisions of the Voting Rights Act is dead wrong and downright dangerous. This decision undermines a fundamental promise that we make to one another as Americans: that every American deserves a fair shot to participate in our democracy.”

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. 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. 

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