Orange Ceasar Rises

[Angrboda]

Just four years ago the Supreme Court ruled that states can in fact compel electors to vote a certain way:

What if the legislatures in Wisconsin and Georgia decide to force their electors to vote for Trump?  The outcome might be unprecedented, but the procedure isn't.  It was ruled to be perfectly legal in 2016.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/06/supreme-...-vote.html

I think the question is under what circumstance. If there is a pre-existing law that says that electors will be awarded a certain way, then that's unproblematic. The question is whether a legislature, upon being tasked with awarding electors according to an existing law, can change that law at that time. It's not clear that they can and have it apply to those electors. I have read little on that question, but what I have read indicates the courts would take a dim view of such a thing. It may even be illegal, depending upon how "ex post facto" laws are defined.