Arizona files lawsuit demanding speaker seat Adelita Grijalva immediately

Arizona files lawsuit demanding speaker seat Adelita Grijalva immediately

Adelita Grijalva & Kris Mayes filed a lawsuit against House speaker Mike Johnson over his monthlong refusal to seat newly elected representative

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The Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is thumbing his nose at the Constitution by failing to seat a Tucson Democrat nearly a month after her overwhelming victory in a September special election, U.S. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva and Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes argued in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Grijalva and Mayes want a court to declare that Mike Johnson, the GOP speaker from Louisiana, is acting unconstitutionally by refusing to allow the Democrat to take the oath of office and begin serving in Congress. They want the court to either force him to seat her or allow someone else to administer the oath of office if Johnson continues to refuse.

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Johnson has never before delayed the oath of office until a regular session is convened when other members of congress were chosen in special elections. Grijalva and Mayes have both sent letters to Johnson asking him to give Grijalva the oath during the current pro-forma session, like he’s done for other members of congress chosen in special elections.

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