Democrats have threatened legal action if Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva isn’t sworn in Friday after winning her special election more than three weeks ago.
Speaker Mike Johnson is brushing off escalating threats of legal action from Democrats if Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva isn’t sworn in during Friday afternoon’s House pro forma session.
“It’s a publicity stunt by a Democrat Attorney General in Arizona who sees a national moment and wants to call me out,” Johnson told reporters Friday of the state’s AG, Kris Mayes. “She has nothing whatsoever to do with what’s happening in Congress.”
Mayes has threatened litigation against Johnson for delaying the swearing in of Grijalva, the Democrat who won the special election more than three weeks ago to succeed her late father, Raúl Grijalva.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his members are backing Mayes up, telling reporters at a press conference Friday morning that “all options are on the table” for seating Grijalva.