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1/ "Trump cannot cancel or postpone the November 3 general election by executive order, under the parameters of a national emergency or disaster declaration, or even if he declared martial law." (more...) https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1288335055195054081
1/ "Trump cannot cancel or postpone the November 3 general election by executive order, under the parameters of a national emergency or disaster declaration, or even if he declared martial law." (more...) https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1288335055195054081
2/ "And in an extreme scenario where the electoral college does not vote, Trump's term would still expire at noon on January 20, 2021, meaning control of the presidency would go down the line of succession." (more...)
Source article:
Jul 28, 2020: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cant-cancel-or-postpone-the-november-election-over-coronavirus-2020-3
Source article:
Jul 28, 2020: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cant-cancel-or-postpone-the-november-election-over-coronavirus-2020-3
3/ "Federal law stipulates that if the electoral college doesn't vote on the set date, the president and vice president's terms will automatically expire at noon on January 20, 2021." (more...)
4/ "Experts including the Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias and Josh Douglas, a professor of voting and election law at the University of Kentucky Law School, explained on Twitter in March that only an act of Congress... (con't)
Mar 13, 2020: https://twitter.com/JoshuaADouglas/status/1238487566208417793
Mar 13, 2020: https://twitter.com/JoshuaADouglas/status/1238487566208417793
5/ ...could alter the federal statute
to change the date that states appoint their electors."
"As Douglas told Insider in a March [2020] interview, Congress passed the law standardizing the date of the nationwide presidential election... (con't)
https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/provisions
to change the date that states appoint their electors.""As Douglas told Insider in a March [2020] interview, Congress passed the law standardizing the date of the nationwide presidential election... (con't)
https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/provisions
6/ ...to be the Tuesday after the first Monday in November back in 1845 and hadn't changed the date since." /end h/t @JohnJHarwood https://twitter.com/JoshuaADouglas/status/1238876306894356480
