Category: Politics

President-elect Joe Biden will take another step toward inauguration Monday when members of the electoral college gather in state capitals to cast their ballots for president and vice president. Follow along as states cast their votes.

The Trump campaign at times pointed to the Dec. 14 electoral college vote as what would ultimately decide the election as it tried to overturn the results.

Michigan lawmakers and police didn’t specify the threats but said they are credible enough to close all legislative buildings ahead of Monday’s electoral college vote.

The Republicans hope for a court victory, even as legal efforts have repeatedly failed.

Republicans’ embrace of a baseless Texas lawsuit suggests the “threat to democratic norms is not Trump-specific,” experts say, and not likely go away after he leaves office.

An explainer.

The defeated president has fixated on Brian Kemp for refusing to question the integrity of his state’s election, worsening long-simmering tensions between the two Republicans.

His lawyers are weighing how to best avoid inappropriate relationships between relatives of Biden and his aides, and the White House.

Paul Mitchell, a reliable conservative in the House, wrote in a letter to GOP leaders that “it is unacceptable for political candidates to treat our election system as though we are a third-world nation.”

In state capitols throughout the day, electors are expected to follow the will of voters in their states and deliver the presidency to Joe Biden.

Or: What the electoral college vote means and what comes next.

The Trump administration’s handling of executions in its final days will be defining.