Re “Shut out by Trump, Biden team losing time to coordinate shot distribution” (Page A1, Nov. 18): For more than 200 years, the United States has enjoyed a peaceful transfer of power between the presidents. There is no law that says that that has to happen, but all those before Donald Trump have graciously stepped aside for the good of the country.
Until now.
Since there is no law that mandates that Trump concede the election, he hasn’t. Why? Because he doesn’t want to, and the Republican-controlled Senate is too afraid of him to show him the door.
So now Congress will need to pass a law that mandates a peaceful transfer of power. Another irony from the Republican Party that believes in less regulation. We shouldn’t need a transfer-of-power law any more than we should need antipollution laws, but sadly we do.
Richard Hackel
Cambridge
