Subject: Ken Chesebro
Since I never heard of this fellow, I attempted to synopsize the main points of this article.

Exclusive: Trump Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro Talks About His Role In The Runup To Jan. 6

I attempted to put points in Chronological order to understand it better.

*'There was good reason to argue that under Article II, that Biden had not legitimately won the electoral votes,' Chesebro told TPM. 'I'm not saying that Trump deserved to win in each state, I'm saying it was legitimate to argue under Article II that there was a problem.'

*11-10 his work for Trump began with a request from an old friend of his named Jim Troupis, who contacted him on Nov. 10, 2020' Troupis, a former Wisconsin judge, and firm was repping Trump in the state. Chesebro agreed to help with a lawsuit'disqualifying hundreds of thousands of ballots in the state's two most Democratic counties.

*11-18 Chesebro first advocated for alternate slates of electors re: Jan 6. He sent Troupis a memo laying out the alternate elector scheme for the first time on Nov. 18

*12-9 Chesebro had authored a memo (On Dec 9th) for the Trump campaign laying out the steps that pro-Trump electors in each state that Biden had won would need to take in order to serve as potential alternates on Jan. 6. ' multiple slates of pro-Trump electors in states that the campaign baselessly claimed it had won would be sworn in.

*12-14 Chesebro and the team of Trump attorneys ultimately lost that bid to block Biden's win in the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Dec. 14 in a 4-3 ruling, the end of the line for Chesebro's efforts to push the alternate elector scheme through the courts. 'he focused on a more staid argument: that election measures taken to run the election in Wisconsin during COVID-19 invalidated Biden's victory.

*Chesebro laid out in detail in a memo what VP Mike Pence should do to subvert the election in messages to Rudy Giuliani and Trump legal advisor John Eastman.

*Chesebro told Eastman that 'the odds of action before Jan. 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be 'wild' chaos on Jan. 6 unless they rule by then, either way.' (There is nothing explaining this reference to "justices" in the article that I can see. Since he's talking to Eastman, I assume he's talking Supreme Court justices. So here is a fellow advocating putting the fear of chaos in the Supreme Court - but before Jan 6? I don't quite understand this one.)

*one (defensive argument by Chesebro) was to cite somewhat similar arguments made by liberals, like a column by Van Jones and Larry Lessig in favor of submitting alternate elector slates in Pennsylvania in case the state took weeks to count. (note - this sounds like it depended on a valid recount by the state)

*Chese bro mentee of Lawrence Tribe - Tribe characterized Chesebro as something of a legal nihilist ' someone with a penchant for helping 'the little guy,' but who remained focused on the 'gamesmanship' aspect of the law. 'I doubt that he cared whether the arguments were sound or not as long as that goal could be met of helping Trump to win the election,' Tribe said. 'That's probably why I wasn't too surprised to learn that he became very involved with Bitcoin.'

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