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President Cannot Postpone National Election, Says Professor Magliocca
08/04/2020
After President Donald Trump evoked on Twitter the idea of postponing the 2020 general election due to the pandemic, IU McKinney Professor Gerard Magliocca discussed the potential for this move, and reiterated the impossibility of it, in an interview with WIBC.
Congress sets the date of the general election, and even should the president try to change the date by executive order, state election officials would likely challenge the order in court because of the inability to plan for an election with its actual calendar date in doubt, Professor Magliocca said.
“I think it’s just a tweet,” Professor Magliocca said in the story.
Professor Magliocca, a well-known constitutional law scholar, is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law at IU McKinney. He is the author of four books, the latest of which, The Heart of the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights Became the Bill of Rights, was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. He also is the author of over 20 articles on constitutional law and intellectual property. He was named to the 2019-2020 class of fellows for the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon.
