Judge rejects an attempt by Trump campaign lawyer to invalidate guilty plea in Georgia election case

Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, appears before Judge Scott MacAfee during a motions hearing in the election subversion case Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer/Pool Photo via AP)

This story was updated on Dec. 13, 2024, at 4:34 p.m.

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 illegally overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Chesebro pleaded guilty to a single conspiracy count a few months later after reaching a deal with prosecutors just before he was to go to trial.