President Franklin Roosevelt famously called Dec. 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy”—the day that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and Roosevelt began drafting a declaration of war.

Most Americans won’t remember Dec. 5 as a day of infamy, but it may live as a consequential date in presidential history.

On Dec. 5, 2019, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced the House of Representatives would proceed with articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

All but one state submitted their Electoral College slates to Congress in time for Tuesday’s “safe harbor” deadline. The law precludes any congressional challenges to states’ certified election results before the official Electoral College vote on Monday. The deadline’s passing strengthens Joe Biden’s hold on at least 296 electors. A pending lawsuit held up Wisconsin’s vote submission, but Biden is expected to win that state’s 10 electors, as well.

WASHINGTON—Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that lawyers and FBI agents have investigated cases of voter fraud around the country and dug into Americans’ complaints. But they have not found any instances of fraud significant enough to change the outcome of November’s presidential election, he said. He added that the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence to corroborate claims of rigged voting machines.

Joe Biden won the Grand Canyon State by a mere 0.3 percentage points, or a little more than 10,000 votes. Arizona officials confirmed the results on Monday. Biden was the first Democratic presidential candidate since Bill Clinton to carry the state and only the second since 1948. President Donald Trump’s lawyers unsuccessfully challenged Arizona’s results in court. State law requires a less than 0.1 percent margin of victory for a recount.

President Donald Trump’s campaign filed several legal challenges to stop Pennsylvania from finalizing its election results. But the state confirmed the vote count on Tuesday and declared President-elect Joe Biden the winner by a little more than 80,000 ballots. Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, sent a message to Washington containing the names of the 20 electors who would cast their votes for Biden. The Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday confirmed the state’s count and Biden’s victory there, as well.

As some congressional Republicans call on President Donald Trump to concede the 2020 election and acknowledge President-elect Joe Biden, Trump is now centering his claims that he won the election in a “landslide” on the idea of a conspiracy involving Dominion Voting Systems. 

After Michigan’s Board of State Canvassers cast a crucial vote to certify the state’s election results on Monday, President Donald Trump made way for his administration to begin working with President-elect Joe Biden on his transition to the White House.