WASHINGTON — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is threatening legal action against House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., if he doesn’t swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., this week.

Arizona’s secretary of state sent the House a certificate of Grijalva’s electoral win after finalizing results on Tuesday, meeting the legal threshold for her to be sworn into office, according to a letter Mayes sent Johnson. If he does not do so, Mayes said, he would face “prompt legal action.”

“With the House in possession of the certificate of election, it is now a simple ministerial duty to administer the oath of office,” the letter states. “The House and its leadership have acted (beyond your authority) and in violation of the Constitution.”

Mayes argued that no lawmaker has challenged Grija

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