Week before congressional certification of election, GOP House members tee up final challenge

A group of Republican representatives is signaling their intent to mount a last-ditch challenge to the 2020 election leading up to the official congressional certification of the election results next week. 

On Wednesday, Jan. 6, a joint session of Congress will meet to log the certificates of ascertainment submitted by each state and officially record the election results in the Congressional Record. 

Yet multiple GOP representatives have publicly affirmed that they will be challenging those votes, citing what they say are irregularities and unconstitutional arrangements that have called into question the integrity of Joe Biden's putative victory in the race.

Among the challengers is Mo Brooks, who represents Alabama's 5th Congressional District. Brooks originally indicated his intent to challenge the certification in early November. "There's no way I'll vote in the House to ratify the Electoral College votes of states where illegal votes distorted the will of the people in those states who voted legally," he wrote on Twitter at the time. 

In an interview with the Birmingham News earlier this month, Brooks reiterated that intent, arguing that Joe Biden "was the largest beneficiary of illegally cast votes in the history of the United States."