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Last updatedAug 2026
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Clay Higgins
U.S. Representative — LA-3
Voted to sustain both objections to the counting of electoral votes on January 6-7, 2021.
Documented conduct
Nov 15, 2023
Denied it was an insurrection
Put it to the Director of the FBI at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing that "ghost buses" had been "filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters, deployed onto our Capitol on Jan. 6", adding "your day is coming, Mr. Wray". The Justice Department's Inspector General afterwards found that no undercover FBI agents were at the riot.
Source: Salon, November 15 2023; Justice Dept. Inspector General, via PBS NewsHour
Jan 7, 2021
Voted to sustain the objection to Pennsylvania's electoral votes
Voted Yea on the objection to counting Pennsylvania's electoral votes. The vote was taken after the Capitol had been cleared and the joint session resumed. It failed, 138 to 282.
Source: House Roll Call No. 11, Jan. 6-7, 2021
Jan 6, 2021
Voted to sustain the objection to Arizona's electoral votes
Voted Yea on the objection to counting Arizona's electoral votes, the first of the two objections pressed on January 6. It failed, 121 to 303.
Source: House Roll Call No. 10, Jan. 6, 2021
Dec 10, 2020
Signed the brief asking the Court to set aside four states' results
One of 126 House members who signed the amicus brief supporting Texas's suit against Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia. The Supreme Court dismissed the underlying petition the next day, seven to two. It was signed four weeks before the count.
Source: Texas v. Pennsylvania, No. 22O155 (U.S.), brief of 126 Representatives