‘Respondent is commanded to desist’: Pro-Trump lawyer at center of fake electors plot has law license suspended in another state after ‘serious crime’ conviction

Ken Chesebro

Left: Court records made public as part of a settlement this week involving fake electors in Wisconsin surfaced this photo of Ken Chesebro at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Behind him in background wearing black jacket ad with face in profile is far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Right: Chesebro poses for a mug shot after Donald Trump and his allies were indicted in an election RICO case (Fulton County Sheriff’s Office).

A pro-Trump lawyer who more than one year ago now pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit filing false documents, a felony, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors against Georgia RICO case co-defendants, which includes the former president, has been “convicted of a serious crime” and, for that reason, should have his license to practice in New York “immediately” suspended, a court decided on Thursday.

Chesebro is an attorney who drafted a legal memo contemplating a scenario where then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6 could set aside legitimate electoral votes from “contested States” and replace those with “Trump-Pence electors.” That memo was featured prominently in the Jan. 6 Committee’s final report, which highlighted the lawyer’s communications to propel the fake elector scheme forward in Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, and elsewhere.

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