Many Republican congressmen and senators will want to, or feel pressure to, object to the Joe Biden votes cast by electors from Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, or Arizona. That’s not because the results in those states are seriously in doubt or because there’s real reason to suspect the election was stolen.

Donald Trump hasn’t accepted his election loss, and so many hangers-on and scared, sycophantic, or cynical members of Congress have played along. Some push unproven and disproven conspiracy theories to try and make the case that Trump really won. Others present a weaker but less crazy justification for their actions, something along the lines of “we shouldn’t certify results until we know exactly how much fraud was or exactly what was in that suitcase or …”