Commentary The United States Constitution is the highest law in the land. It should be respected as we select our president. The Constitution assigns state legislatures the role of directing the manner of appointing each state’s presidential electors, and stipulates that the president’s term expires at noon on Jan. 20 of the year following a presidential election. Most of the remaining details are filled in by federal law, which Congress rarely changes in a permanent way, but routinely tweaks in response to extenuating circumstances. The date on which electoral votes are tallied by Congress, for instance, is regularly moved by a few days in either direction for various reasons. This doesn’t pose a problem, because the only deadline set by the Constitution comes two full weeks after the statutory date for counting the votes, which is Jan. 6. The 2020 presidential election created extenuating circumstances on a scale not seen …