A federal appeals court rejected an “orchestrated campaign” of complaints to remove the judge overseeing the Biden Justice Department’s lawfare case against former President Donald Trump over classified documents raided from his Mar-a-Lago home.
The 11th Circuit Judicial Council, which oversees the lower courts in Florida, announced on May 22 it would not accept a pile of complaints — or any similar complaints in the future — about Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, who is overseeing the classified documents lawfare case. The council said since May 16, 2024, it had received more than 1,000 judicial complaints “that raise allegations that are substantially similar to the allegations raised in previous complaints.”
“These complaints appear to be part of an orchestrated campaign,” the council continued.
The council explained that many of the complaints seek the removal of Cannon from the case and want a different judge to be reassigned, with the complaints citing questions about “the correctness of [Cannon’s] rulings or her delays in issuing rulings in this case.” The council said those complaints were “unsupported by any evidence” that Cannon would have an “improper motive in delaying the case.”
“Because the orchestrated complaints received on and after May 16, 2024, raise allegations that have been or will be considered in previously filed complaints against Judge Cannon, accepting these complaints for filing and processing would not provide any benefit to the adjudication of the merits of the allegations against Judge Cannon,” the opinion reads.
The complaint blitz coincidentally began
