[Vision2020] What if . . .

[Nicholas Gier]

My understanding is that the states run the elections, and they would
decide to postpone or cancel.
nfg

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 12:42 PM Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:

>
> On 3/22/20 6:39 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:
> > . . . Trump suspends the November presidential election due to
> > national emergency?
> >
> > Could . . . Would . . . this happen?
> >
> > (jus’ curious)
>
>
> Not constitutionally.  There are time limits on one person's service as
> president, and the separation of powers to the states for setting dates
> for elections of senators, representatives, and to the electoral college
> to achieve election results in time for winners to begin their new terms
> at the constitutionally mandated dates. This means that no president may
> extend terms of office beyond the two now allowed without constitutional
> amendments approved by three-quarters of the states.
>
> Despite the fact that Vladimir Putin is now allowed to rule Russia until
> 2036, Donald Trump is allowed to be president of the United States of
> America until noon on January 20, 2021, unless individual and electoral
> college voters allow him a second term, which would end, according to
> the current U.S. constitution, January 20, 2025.
>
> If Trump wanted to cancel elections for president and vice president,
> the House of Representatives would choose a president, and the Senate
> would choose a vice-president to serve until the next set of elections
> to be held to choose officers and electors to meet the next
> constitutionally-mandated set of terms of office.  Trump's fantasies
> about following Chinese and Russian leaders into an American presidency
> for life are just that -- fantasies.  Yes, one might fantasize a
> dystopia with appropriate constitutional amendments in place, but I
> doubt even horror writers such as Stephen King would attempt such a
> fiction.  Not only are horror writers unlikely to write such fiction,
> voters are even more unlikely to approve such constitutional amendments.
>
>
>
> Ken
>
>
>
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