Mike Johnson Delays Swearing In Adelita Grijalva to Block Final Signature On Epstein Petition [View all]

Source: Meidas Touch

House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear in Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva who won her race for the Arizona 7th Congressional District this week. Grijalva will be the 218th and final signature needed on a discharge petition to force a floor vote in the House on releasing the Epstein files.

Johnson is claiming he wants to wait until her election results are official, despite Grijalva’s dominant 40-point win and Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes certifying her victory. Johnson’s new standard of waiting for all the votes to be counted was not in place two weeks ago when he swore in Democrat James Walkinshaw of Virginia with unofficial results immediately after his victory. Johnson has also routinely sworn in Republicans the day after their race is called.

 "I was looking at the example of now representative Walkinshaw from Virginia who was elected two weeks ago Tuesday," Grijalva said in an exclusive interview with MeidasTouch, "and that following Wednesday, less than 24 hours was sworn in. And with unofficial results, it literally says so in...the congressman who was introducing him, like, here's unofficial results, but it's not, not disputed, and it was approved without objection."

"So. For me, this Chicana from Tucson. Apparently the rules have now changed in two weeks and we're being asked for official results and, and there's conversations with our Secretary of State. So I'm sort of wondering why in two weeks the rules are so different and maybe it has something to do with the fact that I'm number 218. I don’t know."





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