Much has been made about an effort led by U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) to challenge the outcome of the Electoral College when Congress meets on January 6 to certify the vote and possibly clear a path for Joe Biden to become the next President of the United States.
Brooks’ colleague U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville), who represents Alabama’s Fourth Congressional District just to the south of Brooks’ Fifth Congressional District, said he was still uncertain how the challenge would work but said he was considering “other options” after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit the state of Texas had filed against Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia and Pennsylvania over how those states tallied their votes.
Aderholt told Mobile radio’s FM Talk 106.5 on Friday he was disappointed in the high court and praised Brooks for bringing attention to one of the options Congress has at its disposal.
“Well, obviously, I am in favor of doing anything that we can do to try to make sure this election was fair,” he said. “There was a lot of questions raised in my opinion about the fairness of this past election, of the reports that I saw. Obviously, I have not been to some of the states where they have made allegations of things that were done — ballots were fed into the machine and all. You hear reports — it’s very disturbing. If that happened, then certainly we’ve got to do everything that we can to make sure that we rectify the situation. It’s not just something we say, ‘Oh well, it was a bad election. Some people did some stuff and changed the outcome.’ I mean, this is serious enough that if there were ballots, there were enough to change the outcome of the election, we need to deal with that. I applaud Congressman Brooks in trying to bring attention to this — to make sure that we can try to deal with this.”
“The electors have voted, and if the electors have voted the way we think the electors have voted across the country, then probably Biden is going to have more electoral votes than Trump,” Aderholt continued. “Obviously, overturning that — I think we’ve got to have the information presented to us in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Again, I’m still unclear about this process. This is a process that has never occurred in American history, to my knowledge. And I was talking to a couple of colleagues this morning. We were meeting earlier, and they are very in the dark on this as well. How does this procedure move forward? Yes, if we can try to find a way to get to the bottom of this. I think there’s a big disappointment with the Supreme Court not even hearing this case. If they could have evidence laid out and made a ruling from the Supreme Court, then I think that would have been the best path. I signed the amicus brief, as you probably know, in support of that lawsuit they brought to Texas. And I think it was a good lawsuit, and I think that the justices on the Supreme Court really didn’t serve the country in at least taking it up. I know they said they didn’t have standing, but I would argue Texas did have standing because it could have seen the other states set out to change the outcome of the election that impacts the entire nation, not just those particular states.”
“Be that as it may, they didn’t, and we now have got to look at other options, but obviously when you overturn an election or the possibility of overturning electors, you want to see the information and get that information before Congress,” he added. “And think that is what will have to be done between now and January 6.”
@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Alabama, the editor of Breitbart TV, a columnist for Mobile’s Lagniappe Weekly, and host of Mobile’s “The Jeff Poor Show” from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. on FM Talk 106.5.
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