There were so many complaints against the judge in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago case that the court quit taking them

A Florida appeals court received more than 1,000 complaints about the federal judge presiding over Donald Trump’s classified documents case within just a week last month.

Many of the complaints have demanded Trump-appointed US District Judge Aileen Cannon remove herself from the Mar-a-Lago case and reassign it to a different judge, according to a notice filed with the 11th Circuit US Court of Appeals.

Other complaints “also question the correctness of her rulings or her delays in issuing rulings in the case,” according to the notice from Chief Judge William Pryor.

More than 1,000 complaints were submitted to the court from May 16 through May 22, the date of Judge Pryor’s notice.

He ordered that the court clerk not accept any more complaints “to the extent they are similar to previously filed complaints,” according to the filing, which was first reported by CNBC.

The complaints follow accusations from Trump critics and legal observers that Judge Cannon is slow-walking the case to avoid a trial before the 2024 presidential election, including in a recent decision to indefinitely postpone proceedings by taking the May trial date off the calendar.

The complaints “appear to be part of an orchestrated campaign,” and officials have “considered and dismissed four of those orchestrated complaints as merits-related and as based on allegations lacking sufficient evidence to raise an inference that misconduct has occurred,” according to the judge.

Some of the complaints received by the court before May 16 “have been acted upon, and others will be acted upon in due course,” Judge Pryor wrote.

Neither the chief circuit judge nor judicial council have the authority to remove Judge Cannon.

On May 7, Judge Cannon scuttled the original