Kenneth Chesebro, a former legal advisor of the 2020 presidential campaign of Donald Trump, is now prohibited from practicing the law in New York for his role in a scheme to cancel Trump’s electoral loss five years ago.
In an order on Thursday, a State Court of Appeals in New York said that Chesebro’s criminal conduct, namely, which conspires to commit a presentation of false documents in relation to efforts to deny Trump’s defeat in 2020 in Georgia to Joe Biden, “undermines the very notion of our constitutional democracy that he, as a lawyer, suggests the OATH to stop.”
Chesebro was first admitted to practice law in New York in 2007. His disqualification is immediately effective, says the order.
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Chesebro reached a guilt agreement with Georgia prosecutors in 2023, when he declared himself guilty of a conspiracy charge to commit a presentation of false documents after being accused of seven charges.
Trump declared himself innocent in the case, which included accusations against him, Chesebro and another 17. The case stagnated this year, largely due to Trump’s electoral victory in November and the elimination of the Fulton County District Prosecutor, Fani Willis, as a prosecutor.
The Court, which had initially suspended Chesebro to practice laws in New York last year, said in Thursday that Cavalier’s attitude of Chesebro with respect to his actions, particularly in the face of his extensive background in the areas of the Constitutional and Electoral Law, greatly aggravates his conduct. “
According to the order, an officer in charge of putting an evidence and testimony report also disputed a discussion of Chesebro’s lawyer that it was incorrect characterizing his client as an architect of Trump’s plans to annul the elections.
The court said the official said that “despite the efforts to combat the description that the defendant was the” architect “of Trump’s efforts to cancel the 2020 elections, the testimony and documentary evidence produced at the hearing fully support said claim, to the extent that the legal patterns of analysis and the implementation of the defendant fed the effort.”
A Chesebro lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comments on Thursday night.
Chesebro is one of Trump’s many allied lawyers who were penalized for their participation in Trump’s electoral interference efforts.
Rudy Giuliani was inhibited in New York and Washington, DC, and Jenna Ellis was prohibited from practicing the law in Colorado for three years after she declared himself guilty in relation to Trump’s efforts to subvert the elections.
