[chris37]

I suspect that they are trying to get a ruling that frees them as well as other electors.

If they don’t have to vote for Hillary, then a whole bunch of other don’t have to vote for Trump in states that he won.

That’s the game they are playing.

[holden]

...which suggests they haven’t gotten any Republican electors to play along with them (convincingly).

HF

[Political Junkie Too]

It's either that, or they want to be free from voting for Clinton so they can vote for a third alternative.

The Twelfth Amendment limits Congress to voting for the top three Electoral College vote-getters. Currently, there are only two. If they can get a third person into the mix, even if with only a handful of votes, they still qualify as the third person. They want that third person to be a consensus candidate.

Then they hope to coerce Congress into voting for the third person.

-PJ