An effort to get a Trump-appointed judge taken off the former president's classified documents case was denied by a chief judge who called the complaints 'orchestrated.'
A federal judge derided an apparent effort to get the judge overseeing former President Trump’s criminal classified documents case removed, arguing the Florida judge appeared to be the victim of an 'orchestrated campaign.' Judge Aileen Cannon was the target of more than 1,000 complaints in a single week last month, with critics accusing her of intentionally stalling the criminal case against Trump until after the election, according to a report from CNBC. But 11th Circuit U.S.
In his order, Pryor noted that 'many of the complaints' against Cannon 'request that the Chief Circuit Judge remove her from the classified-documents case and reassign the case to a different judge' and 'question the correctness of her rulings or her delays in issuing rulings in the case.
Although many of the complaints allege an improper motive in delaying the case, the allegations are speculative and unsupported by any evidence,' the judge wrote. 'The Complaints also do not establish that Judge Cannon was required to recuse herself from the case because she was appointed by then-President Trump.'
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