At long last, Mike Johnson had to do the one thing he’d been desperately trying to avoid—swear in Democratic Representative Adelita Grijalva. This is a task Johnson has been putting off for seven weeks, for the obvious reason that Grijalva is the Trump regime’s worst nightmare. Why? Because she has pledged to provide the final signature on the discharge petition to force a vote on a bipartisan bill to release government files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. This is how Grijalva responded once she was finally sworn in.

This is unprecedented. It’s undemocratic, it’s unconstitutional, it’s illegal. Nobody, no member elect should ever be in this situation again, where 813,000 people are silenced because one person wants to play politics with their swearing in. . . . There have been entire freshmen classes that were sworn in during a shutdown, and the fact that the Senate hadn’t passed the CR has nothing to do with me. That was all to give Speaker Johnson more time in order to try to convince one of those four Republicans to take their name off or maybe perhaps waiting to see what was going to happen on Tuesday. . . . Southern Arizona deserves to have a representative that can fully represent them, and I am glad that that’s finally going to happen after 49 days of waiting.

It is an abuse of power and of Johnson’s office. The rich irony is that when Mike Johnson swore in Rep. Grijalva, he made her take an oath to uphold and defend the constitution against enemies foreign and domestic, while Johnson and his boss are two of the greatest enemies to our Republic.

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