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The Associated Press reports: The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others on Friday rejected an attempt by former Trump campaign lawyer Kenneth Chesebro to invalidate his guilty plea. Chesebro, Trump and 17 others were charged in August 2023 in a sprawling indictment that accused them of participating in a sweeping scheme to try to …

The Associated Press reports: Wisconsin prosecutors filed 10 additional felony charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide to President-elect Donald Trump who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork falsely claiming that the Republican had won the battleground state that year. Jim Troupis, who was Trump’s attorney in Wisconsin, Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who …

The Associated Press reports: Former Trump campaign lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in the Georgia 2020 election meddling case against the President-elect and others, is trying to invalidate that plea. Chesebro was charged in August 2023, alongside Donald Trump and 17 others, in a sprawling indictment accusing them of participating in a wide-ranging scheme to …

Axios reports: Former Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro had his law license suspended in New York Thursday over his role in the alleged effort to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. Chesebro pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to commit filing false documents last year. He is among several ex-Trump lawyers who have been disciplined after working for the former …

The Washington Post reports: Wisconsin’s attorney general filed charges Tuesday against an aide and two attorneys who advised Donald Trump over a meeting of Republicans who claimed to be the state’s 2020 presidential electors even though Trump had lost the state. The charges are the first in Wisconsin related to the meeting of electors. Prosecutors have separately charged Republicans who …

CNN reports: Google and X, formerly Twitter, recently provided hundreds of files to Michigan prosecutors for their 2020 election subversion probe, complying with search warrants that investigators obtained after CNN revealed secret social media accounts belonging to pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who played a major role in the fake electors plot. According to the new documents provided to Michigan prosecutors, …

CNN reports: Kenneth Chesebro, the right-wing attorney who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot in 2020, concealed a secret Twitter account from Michigan prosecutors, hiding dozens of damning posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in the election subversion scheme. Chesebro denied using Twitter, now known as the platform X, or having any “alternate IDs” …

The Daily Beast reports: New documents show that Donald Trump’s trusted advisers were warned that criminal charges could result from the “fake elector” schemes carried out in several states—part of an attempt by the Trump campaign and its allies to overturn the 2020 election that has since led to indictments in a number of states. According to communications given to …

The Washington Post reports: Kenneth Chesebro, one of former president Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election-interference case, plans to meet with investigators in Arizona and Nevada, where similar probes are underway. Chesebro, who pleaded guilty in the Georgia case to a single felony count of participating in a conspiracy to file false documents, had been charged primarily in relation …

The Messenger reports: Citing ongoing probes related to the 2020 election in Arizona, Nevada, and Washington, D.C., former Trump election attorney Kenneth Chesebro on Monday requested changes to his probation conditions in Georgia. “Currently, as reported in the national media, there are investigations of the ‘election fraud’ cases ongoing in Nevada, Arizona and D.C.,” the filing from Chesebro’s Atlanta-based defense …

Mediaite has the transcript: ABBY PHILLIP: A huge legal blow for former President Trump with a third co-defendant pleading guilty in the Georgia election interference case. And this time, it is the person who is at the heart of the fake electors plot.  I want to bring in now Kenneth Chesebro’s Attorney, Scott Grubman. Look, today your client has now …

The New York Times reports: On Dec. 24, 2020, Kenneth Chesebro and other lawyers fighting to reverse President Donald J. Trump’s election defeat were debating whether to file litigation contesting Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in Wisconsin, a key swing state. Mr. Chesebro argued there was little doubt that the litigation would fail in court — he put the odds …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on Friday denied a motion by former Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro to toss out emails and memos he wrote detailing a plan to use a Republican slate of electors in Georgia and six other swing states won by Democrat Joe Biden. Chesebro’s lawyers had argued that the documents …

The Messenger reports: Attorneys for pro-Donald Trump lawyer Ken Chesebro told a Georgia judge on Tuesday that providing “less than two months” of legal advice after the 2020 presidential election does not amount to a racketeering scheme. Fulton County prosecutors call Chesebro the architect of a plan to send pro-Trump electors to the U.S. Congress in states that Joe Biden …

The Messenger reports: Kenneth Chesebro, an election attorney for former President Donald Trump, argued on Thursday that his emails should be excluded as evidence from the Georgia election-racketeering case in which he and Trump are co-defendants. In a motion Thursday seeking to have all evidence stemming from a search of his email account excluded from the proceedings, Chesebro’s attorneys argued …

The Daily Beast reports: A judge in Georgia on Wednesday denied motions from two co-defendants to sever their cases from one another in the sprawling racketeering prosecution against Donald Trump. Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee handed down the decision after more than 90 minutes of arguments from prosecutors and defense counsel. The ruling is a win for Fulton County District …

The Hill reports: Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney charged in the 2020 Georgia election case for aiding in the fake electors plan, made clear to a state judge Friday he wants nothing to do with co-defendant Sidney Powell. Chesebro and Powell — who both pleaded not guilty — filed separate motions for a speedy trial, which would likely allow them to …

CNN reports: When conspiracy theorist Alex Jones marched his way to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, riling up his legion of supporters, an unassuming middle-aged man in a red “Trump 2020” hat conspicuously tagged along. Videos and photographs reviewed by CNN show the man dutifully recording Jones with his phone as the bombastic media personality ascended to the …

The New York Times reports: A lawyer allied with President Donald J. Trump first laid out a plot to use false slates of electors to subvert the 2020 election in a previously unknown internal campaign memo that prosecutors are portraying as a crucial link in how the Trump team’s efforts evolved into a criminal conspiracy. The existence of the Dec. …

Politico reports: An attorney who helped develop former President Donald Trump’s last-ditch strategy to subvert the 2020 election moved Thursday to block a subpoena for his testimony to an Atlanta-area grand jury investigating potential crimes connected to the effort. Kenneth Chesebro, who helped craft a plan to use false presidential electors to undermine the certification of Joe Biden’s victory, contended …