Delayed election, mail-in ballots and transfer of power: Barrett steers clear of Trump's strike zone
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Legal scholars point to language in the Constitution that explicitly gives that power to Congress.She wouldn’t say if the president should commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses an election conducted in accordance with the law, saying that was “pulling me in a little bit into this question of whether the president has said that he would not peacefully leave office.”“And so to the extent that this is a political controversy right now, as a judge, I want to stay out of it, and I do not want to express a view,” Barrett told Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.She declined Wednesday to say whether mail-in or absentee ballots were an essential way for Americans to vote in a pandemic.
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