Cass R. Sunstein, Columnist

Can Trump Delay the 2020 Election? Here's What the Constitution Says

If the president’s lawyers gin up an argument that he can, we will be witness to authoritarianism in its defining form.

April 13, 2020 at 5:00 PM UTC

Cass R. Sunstein is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is the author of “The Cost-Benefit Revolution” and a co-author of “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness.”

It’s not his decision.
Photographer: Tasos Katopodis/Bloomberg

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It is alarming, to say the least, that people are even asking this question: Does President Donald Trump have the legal authority to postpone or cancel the 2020 presidential election?

The answer is entirely clear: He does not.