2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/DOJ/MIKE POMPEO: “Mike Pompeo erroneously asserted that the Department of Justice will decide whether the presidential election is held on Nov. 3.
[T]he secretary of state was asked to address President Trump’s Thursday tweet suggesting that the presidential election should be moved because of voter fraud related to the enormous amount of mail-in votes that will be issued because of concerns surrounding the coronavirus…
‘In the end, the Department of Justice and others will make that legal determination,’ [Pompeo stated]…
Virtually no legal scholar believes the president has the authority to move Election Day, which is set by federal law.”
-Joseph Simonson, “Pompeo: Justice Department will determine when elections are held,” washingtonexaminer.com, July 30, 2020