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He served from to Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. After the Presidential Election, President Trump, his advisors and associates, and Republican legislators collaborated in a failed coup to have the election decided by themselves rather than by voters. Lamborn was among the Republican legislators who participated in this.

Shortly after the election, Lamborn joined a case before the Supreme Court calling for all the votes for president in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states that were narrowly won by Democrats — to be discarded, in order to change the outcome of the election. In the case, Republicans proffered lies and a novel legal theory which the Supreme Court rejected.

Following the rejection of several related cases before the Supreme Court, another legislator who joined the case called for violence. In , Trump associates and top advisors pleaded guilty to submitting a fraudulent slate of electors to Congress from Georgia , making false statements about purported widespread fraud in the election, and tampering with voting machines after the election , admitted in civil court to posing as fake electors in Wisconsin , and were convicted of contempt of Congress for withholding documents during its investigation and assaulting police officers at the Capitol.

Trump associates and top advisors are also currently facing charges for submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress in Michigan , Nevada , Arizona , and Wisconsin.

Douglas Lawrence Lamborn (born May 24, ) is an American attorney and politician who served as the US representative for Colorado's 5th congressional.

Trump himself faces related criminal charges in state court , and a federal investigation which terminated because he won re-election alleged that Trump sought to ignore true vote counts, manufactured fraudulent slates of presidential electors, and used the January 6 riot to obstruct the congressional certification of the presidential election.

Trump was impeached but not convicted in for incitement of insurrection related to the same events. He was also impeached but not convicted of using the presidency to solicit the help of a foreign government to benefit his reelection in , and he was convicted in state court in for falsifying business records to cover up acts that he believed might have hurt him in the election.

Lamborn was sued for a wide variety of abusive behaviors towards Congressional staff. The Committee carried its investigation into the th Congress. I want to urge Lamborn to take an action on a bill.