Today in Denver Federal District Court we filed. Politico has the lead here
Two presidential electors in Colorado are heading to court Tuesday to try and boost their extreme long-shot gambit to stop Donald Trump from officially being elected president when the Electoral College votes on Dec. 19.
Democratic electors Polly Baca and Robert Nemanich are filing suit in federal court to overturn a state law that forces them to support the winner of Colorado's presidential popular vote, in this case Hillary Clinton. But a successful bid, they say, would undermine similar laws in 28 other states, empowering Republican electors in those states to reject Trump.
n the legal filing, obtained by POLITICO, lawyers for Baca and Nemanich argue that Colorado's statute is flatly unconstitutional because the Founding Fathers intended presidential electors to have free will when casting their votes — and to consider the popular vote as merely advisory.
"Plaintiffs are entitled to exercise their judgment and free will to vote for whomever they believe to be the most qualified and fit for the offices of President and Vice President, whether those candidates are Democrats, Republicans, or from a third party," they argue in a brief signed by Denver attorney Jason Wesoky.
The suit is accompanied by a motion for a temporary restraining order, a filing intended to halt the enforcement of the Colorado law and that bumps the case to the top of the court's docket. They've requested a hearing as soon as Friday and proposed several hearing dates next week as well.