"After waiting 50 days to be sworn in as an Arizona Congress member, Representative Adelita Grijalva wasted no time playing nice with GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson. Asked by a reporter why there was such a long wait after her special election (to fill her late father Raul Grijalva's seat), she smiled demurely, said, "It's not my question"-and pointed to Johnson. "Look, I really like this lady," Johnson cooed. Grijalva did not return the compliment."
"And when she stepped down from the podium, she made more trouble for the speaker by immediately becoming the last needed signatory to a discharge petition on a bill to release the Justice Department's Epstein files. Now the bill could come before the House as early as next week. After a day rocked by the release of tens of thousands of Epstein e-mails, more than a few about Trump, even Republicans predicted it would pass the House, likely with plenty of GOP support."
"To be clear, the e-mails released Wednesday were acquired from Epstein's estate after a GOP House Oversight subpoena, designed to block the release of the actual "files"-the voluminous records of the Justice Department's investigation into Epstein that resulted in his indictment on sex trafficking charges. What changed? After a summer of increasingly bad Epstein news, Johnson essentially shut down the House and refused to swear in Grijalva to keep the bill from passing."
Representative Adelita Grijalva waited 50 days to be sworn in and publicly criticized House Speaker Mike Johnson for delaying her oath. She called the seven-week hold an "abuse of power" and said one individual should not unilaterally obstruct the swearing-in of a duly elected member for political reasons. Immediately after speaking she became the final signatory on a discharge petition to release Justice Department Epstein files, potentially bringing the bill to the House within a week. Tens of thousands of Epstein emails were released, prompting bipartisan attention and additional mass releases by committee Republicans.
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