CALIFORNIA: Trump Seeks To Intervene In Lawsuit To Unbind Electors From Popular Vote Winners

Politico reports:

For the second time in a week, Donald Trump has warned a federal judge that a lawsuit brought by a Democratic presidential elector could jeopardize his bid for the presidency. In a filing with the U.S. District Court in Northern California, Trump’s attorney urges Judge Edward Davila, a 2011 Barack Obama appointee, to allow him to intervene and become a party to the lawsuit, brought by California elector Vinz Koller.

Koller, the chairman of the Monterey County Democratic Party, is suing the state to invalidate a law that requires him to cast his electoral vote for the winner of California’s popular vote when the Electoral College convenes on Dec. 19 to pick the next president.

Though Hillary Clinton won California, Koller and his allies are hopeful that a legal victory will undermine similar “binding” laws in 28 other states, including 14 in which Trump was the popular vote winner. Were those laws to be dismantled, anti-Trump members of the Electoral College are hoping to convince dozens of Republican electors to abandon Trump and block him from winning the presidency.