A federal appeals court will no longer hear complaints about Aileen Cannon, the judge in Florida who is in charge of the federal criminal case against Donald Trump. The complaints seem to be part of an “orchestrated campaign.”
The ruling from May 22 from the 11th Circuit Judicial Council, which is in charge of Florida’s lower courts, said that since May 16, 2024, there have been more than 1,000 complaints to the clerk “that make similar claims to those made in earlier complaints.” The council told the court clerk to stop taking reports like this one.
What exactly set off the flood of reports after May 16 is not clear. Trump is being charged with mishandling classified papers, but Cannon put off the start of his trial indefinitely last month.
It was said that several complaints against Cannon “question the correctness of her rulings or her delays in issuing rulings” in the case of the classified papers. The opinion says that among the complaints were claims that Cannon has a “improper motive in delaying the case” that are “unsupported by any evidence.”
There were also complaints that Chief Judge William Pryor of the 11th Circuit Court should remove Cannon from the case involving classified papers. However, the judicial council said that neither he nor the council could do that.
According to the order, Pryor has looked at some of the complaints and thrown them out because they did not provide enough proof that Cannon had done anything wrong.
