Trump 2020 fake electors architect disbarred in New York

Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who plotted to use fake electors to overturn the 2020 presidential election on behalf of President Donald Trump, was disbarred in the state of New York this week.

In an order obtained by Lawfare's Anna Bower on Thursday, a panel of judges noted that Chesebro had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to file false electors in Georgia.

The panel ordered that Chesebro "is disbarred and his name is stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law of the State of New York, effective immediately."

The attorney was "commanded to desist and refrain from the practice of law in any form in the State of New York, either as principal or as agent, clerk or employee of another; and respondent is hereby forbidden to appear as an attorney or counselor-at-law before any court, judge, justice, board, commission or other public authority, or to give to another an opinion as to the law or its application, or any advice in relation thereto, or to hold himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law in this State."

Chesebro was also facing charges in Wisconsin and was said to be cooperating in a fake electors investigation in Arizona.

The attorney was first suspended from practicing law in New York in 2024.