The New York Times reports:
On Dec. 24, 2020, Kenneth Chesebro and other lawyers fighting to reverse President Donald J. Trump’s election defeat were debating whether to file litigation contesting Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in Wisconsin, a key swing state. Mr. Chesebro argued there was little doubt that the litigation would fail in court — he put the odds of winning at “1 percent” — as Mr. Trump continued to push his baseless claims of widespread fraud. But the “relevant analysis,” Mr. Chesebro argued, “is political.”
Mr. Chesebro’s emails could undercut any effort to show that the lawyers were focused solely on legal strategies. Rather than considering just the law and the facts of the case, Mr. Chesebro made clear he was considering politics and was well aware of how the Trump campaign’s legal filings could be used as ammunition for Republicans’ efforts to overturn the results when Congress met to certify the Electoral College outcome on Jan. 6, 2021.
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NEW: @lukebroadwater and me with more Chesebro correspondence about overturning the election results, with him focusing specifically on the political impacts of the lawsuits https://t.co/OtCgS6hRGc
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 18, 2023
