Former Trump lawyer loses law license in New York

Politico

A lawyer who was part of a plot to overturn the results of the 2020 election and keep Donald Trump in power has lost his license to practice in New York.

A New York appeals court determined Thursday that Kenneth Chesebro should be disbarred because of his 2023 conviction in Georgia for his role in the effort to subvert the election.

Chesebro has admitted to helping craft a bid to send fraudulent pro-Trump electors from six states to Congress in hopes of flipping the outcome of the election.

Chesebro’s conduct, the panel wrote in its decision, “strike[s] at the heart of the administration of justice,” and undercuts the very notion of our constitutional democracy that he, as an attorney, swore an oath to uphold.”

Chesebro had his law license suspended by the appeals court in October 2024. He was admitted to the state bar in 2007. Chesebro, who assisted former Vice President Al Gore’s legal team amid the legal fallout of the 2000 presidential election, wrote several memos giving rise to the fake elector plot in the months after Trump’s November 2020 loss.

Alongside his Georgia guilty plea, Chesebro also cooperated with prosecutors in Arizona and Georgia and is currently charged in connection with the fraudulent elector plot in Wisconsin.