Arizona voters elected Adelita Grijalva to Congress on September 23 ( https://www.aol.com/news/democrat-adelita-grijalva-wins-special-030722840.html )) — but it is three weeks later and Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear her in.
Why?
Republicans elected the same way as Grijalva were sworn in the day after they were elected.
Is this a partisan thing or does the Speaker have another motive?
A likely likely reason seems to be that her vote could force a House vote on releasing the Epstein files ( https://www.loscerritosnews.net/2025/10/13/speaker-johnson-is-protecting-a-pedophile/ )
So far Speaker Mike Johnson has prevented this but one more signature would on this bipartisan petition to force the vote.