A New York state appeals court suspended Kenneth Chesebro’s law license on Thursday, a timely reminder of both the failed plot to subvert the 2020 election and the potential consequences for any would-be plotters this go-round.
The court cited Chesebro’s guilty plea last year in Georgia, where, as the court recounted in Thursday’s opinion, he was charged alongside co-defendants “in a scheme to submit false election results to Congress concerning the 2020 presidential election.” Chesebro pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit filing false documents. He has been charged in a similar case in Wisconsin as well.
The New York court recalled that the count to which Chesebro pleaded guilty in Georgia alleged that he, “along with [Donald] Trump, [Rudy] Giuliani, John Eastman and others, unlawfully conspired in Georgia between December 6, 2020 and December 14, 2020 to knowingly file, enter and record a document entitled ‘Certificate of the Votes of the 2020 Electors from Georgia,’ in a court of the US, while having reason to know that the document contained a materially false statement.”
The court concluded that because Chesebro “has been convicted of a serious crime, we accordingly suspend respondent [Chesebro] from the practice of law in New York on an interim basis.”
Chesebro isn’t the only lawyer to face legal consequences from 2020, including, among others, Giuliani, Eastman, Jeffrey Clark and Jenna Ellis, the last of whom also took a plea deal in Georgia.
But when it comes to criminal consequences for Donald Trump himself, the election results could determine when — and even whether — he faces trial for his alleged actions.
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