Trump classified documents judge is target of more than 1,000 complaints, appeals court reveals

• Judge Aileen Cannon has been criticized for her handling of the criminal case in Florida federal court against former President Donald Trump, who appointed her to the bench.
• Trump is charged in the case with crimes related to retaining classified government documents after he left the White House, and with obstructing the recovery of those records.
• The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was found guilty Thursday in New York state court of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

The Florida federal judge overseeing the criminal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump has been the target of more than 1,000 complaints in just one week this month raising allegations of her handling of the case, a top appeals court judge revealed in an order.

The complaints against Judge Aileen Cannon have come to light amid renewed criticism by some legal observers and Trump opponents that she is slow-walking the criminal case against the former president to ensure it does not go to trial before the presidential election.

"Many of the complaints" against Cannon filed with the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals "request that the Chief Circuit Judge remove her from the classified-documents case and reassign the case to a different judge," Chief Judge William Pryor wrote in a May 22 order posted on the appeal court's website.

And "many of the complaints against Judge Cannon also question the correctness of her rulings or her delays in issuing rulings in the case," Pryor wrote.

Those complaints filed since May 16 "appear to be part of an orchestrated campaign," according to Pryor, whose appellate court reviews cases arising from federal district courts in Florida,