Wisconsin AG Charges Trump Advisor Kenneth Chesebro With 10 More Felonies: Onetime Protege of Lawrence Tribe Has Come Full Circle

The Harvard-educated lawyer now faces more criminal charges for supporting Trump’s efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election.

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Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro is sworn in during a plea deal hearing, October 20, 2023, at the Fulton County Courthouse at Atlanta. Alyssa Pointer/pool via AP

The charging of lawyer Kenneth Chesebro in Wisconsin with 10 felony charges of forgery — he already faced one handed up in the spring — in connection to President Trump’s efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election in that state underscores the dramatic transformation of a onetime liberal legal prodigy into an attorney committed to Trump’s politics. 

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