Just ahead of Election Day, the ruling is a timely reminder of the plot to subvert the 2020 election and the potential consequences of trying to overthrow this one. A New York state appeals court suspended Kenneth Chesebro ’s law license on Thursday, a timely reminder of both the failed plot to subvert the 2020 election and the potential consequences for any would-be plotters this go-round. The court cited Chesebro’s guilty plea last year in Georgia, where, as the court recounted in Thursday’s