As long as speaker Mike Johnson continues to refuse to bring the house back into the session, the reason why Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva has not yet been sworn.
I can think of a few reasons why Johnson would hold on to swear her.
The first is that every mood that may be needed in the house will be close by the closure of the government. Speaker Johnson may try to deny Democrats an extra voice.
The other possibility is one that Adelita Grijalva herself pointed out to CNN, namely that it will be the 218th signature on the Epstein files discharged petition.
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Grijalva said on CNN’s News Central in response to the question about why she has not yet been sworn:
In general I don’t try to be a conspiracy theorist. I am something like that, okay, there must be a plausible explanation, but in my case this speaker Johnson sworn in three other congress members who were chosen in a special, and two of them were Republicans, on April 1, and they were sworn in a pro forma session. And then we have sworn a representative, Walkinshaw, a democrat in about three weeks ago, voices, chosen on a Tuesday, sworn in less than 24 hours later on Wednesday. And there was a pro forma session.
I was in DC. And now I hear the next time the congress is in the seat, we were planned to be the 30th on September 29 on September 29, which were canceled. Then we would be in session on October 7. They were also canceled. And now he has publicly indicated that until the Senate does them, something passes that the house can look at.
Then they come, we will not come back. So I don’t know. I have some idea when I might be sworn in and the speaker’s office has not had direct communication with me.
Grijalva said she heard from other Democrats that the Epstein Dossify Dechs -Petition is the reason for the delay:
I hear that and I will be the 218th signer of the resignation request. So that is the only thing most people point to. I am a woman of color, a chicana from Tucson. None of those factors that I don’t think are reasons why it would be sworn in the other, other than indicate the Epstein files and the full lack of transparency.
Of this administration when releasing those files. The other is the speaker Johnson has closed voices in the recent past to prevent a vote on the Epstein files, so there seems to be a connection.
Mike Johnson has previously delayed the cursing of new democratic members to buy time for the voices he tried to avoid.
In this case it is uncertain whether Johnson buys time about the closure of the government, the Epstein files or both.
Anyway, something is very rotten, because the chairman of the house, which has increasingly become worse during the government’s closure, avoid cursing in Grijalva.
Are the Epstein files Why Grijalva is not sworn in? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
