Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva’s victory in Arizona is now official. It has been certified by the state and the Arizona Attorney General is done with Johnson’s games.
Grijalvia said in a statement that the election certification “simply confirms what voters made clear 21 days ago: we decisively won this election by more than 40,000 votes.”
She also thanked Arizona officials, Gov. Katie Hobbs, Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, for “fulfilling their duties and standing up for the more than 800,000 Arizonans who currently have no voice in Congress.”
Attorney General Mayes, for her part, has sent Johnson a demand letter.
Mayes wrote:
On behalf of the State of Arizona, I demand that the Honorable Adelita Grijalva be sworn in as Representative of Arizona’s Seventh Congressional District and be allowed to take her seat without further delay. Failure to promptly seat Ms. Grijalva or otherwise provide a reasonable explanation as to when she will be seated will result in legal action.
The unique democratic function of the House of Representatives makes frustrating the will of the voters in choosing their representative particularly egregious. A member of the House of Representatives holds the only proportionally and directly elected position in the federal government, and “it is particularly essential that [the House] must have an immediate dependence on and an intimate sympathy with the people.” The Federalist No. 52 (James Madison). The House’s sole authority to initiate certain follow-on matters, such as revenue bills, flows from this status. See, for example, The Federalist Nos. 58 (James Madison) (revenue); 65, 66, 81 (Alexander Hamilton) (impeachment).
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