As Paramount pushes to settle the state antitrust lawsuit that has stymied its deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, Democratic lawmakers continue to rally opposition to the deal.

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison argued the antitrust case against the Warner Bros. Discovery merger was about politics.

David Ellison is prepared start moving Paramount out of California as soon as Oct. 1 unless the state's attorney general, Rob Bonta, agrees to settlement talks in the antitrust…