Kenneth Chesebro, a former Trump lawyer who helped devise the campaign's alternate electors strategy in 2020, has had his New York law license suspended following his conviction for a felony.
On Thursday, a panel from the Appellate Division—New York’s mid level appeals court—ruled that Chesebro is immediately barred from practicing law in the state due to his guilty plea in the Georgia election interference case involving former President Trump and his associates.
Chesebro pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to commit filing false documents, narrowly avoiding being the first among several defendants to go to trial regarding his efforts to keep Trump in power after the 2020 election loss in Georgia.
Chesebro was key in crafting the so-called fake electors scheme, which sought to certify pro-Trump electors in battleground states instead of the legitimate electoral votes for Biden. These false electors allegedly convened in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Nevada, and Wisconsin, falsely claiming to be “duly elected” representatives from their states. The scheme depended on former Vice President Mike Pence to certify the pro-Trump electoral votes, but Pence refused on January 6, 2021, leading to the Capitol riot.
Following his plea, Chesebro has been involved in investigations in Arizona and Nevada, and he faces additional charges in Wisconsin related to the same plot.
