Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska was correct on multiple levels in a late-night Facebook post blasting President Trump for asking Congress to reject the duly certified electoral votes of several states.

The challenges are counterconstitutional in both a technical sense and in a deeper way that would corrode the (small ‘r’) republican order. As Sasse explains in convincing detail, they are also extravagantly counterfactual because there is nothing even close to solid evidence of voting irregularities of a scope large enough to overturn the states’ certified results.