A federal judge, appointed by former President George W. Bush, dismissed an attempt to disqualify the judge overseeing the classified documents case against President Trump, characterizing it as an “orchestrated campaign” against her.
In a single week in May, more than 1,000 complaints were lodged against Judge Aileen Cannon. The court clerk was ordered by the council to stop accepting similar complaints.
William Pryor, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, dismissed the attempt to remove her.
The judicial council's opinion stated that several complaints against Judge Cannon “question the correctness of her rulings or her delays in issuing rulings” in the classified documents case. These complaints included allegations, “unsupported by any evidence,” that Cannon had an “improper motive in delaying the case.”
Some complaints requested that Chief Judge William Pryor of the 11th Circuit Court remove Cannon from the case—a step the judicial council noted that neither he nor the council could take.
Pryor reviewed and dismissed some of the complaints, as they did not present sufficient evidence of any misconduct by Cannon, according to the order.
