Pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro suspended from practicing law in DC after being 'convicted of a serious crime'

Source: Law & Crime

Sep 25th, 2025, 1:23 pm


A federal court of appeals has suspended conservative attorney Kenneth Chesebro from practicing law in Washington, D.C.

Chesebro is widely known as one of the authors of the so-called "coup memos" – documents that offered legal opinions on how President Donald Trump could overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in a "constitutionally defensible manner." Specifically, Chesebro was a chief architect of the alternate — or "fake" — electors plan.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered "on the court's own motion" that Chesebro "be suspended from the practice of law before this court."

The appellate court's terse, one-page order says its decision is premised on Chesebro's conviction in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, in October 2023. That conviction, of course, was a direct result of Chesebro's discredited pro-Trump legal work.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/on-the-courts-own-motion-pro-trump-lawyer-kenneth-chesebro-suspended-from-practicing-law-in-dc-after-being-convicted-of-a-serious-crime/