Ex-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro disbarred in New York

Ex-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who helped devise President Trump's alternate electors strategy in 2020, has been disbarred in New York.

A panel of judges on the Appellate Division — New York’s midlevel appeals court — ruled Thursday that Chesebro’s guilty plea in Georgia’s probe of efforts to subvert the state’s 2020 election results qualifies as a “serious crime,” a finding that begets disciplinary action. 

The panel wrote that Chesebro’s guilty plea on one felony count...