By Jasper Ward

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The state of Arizona on Tuesday sued the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives over the delayed swearing in of Democratic Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.

Grijalva, 54, won a special election last month to fill the House seat that was left vacant when her father, Raul Grijalva, died in March. House Speaker Mike Johnson has said he will swear her when the House returns, but has kept lawmakers out of Washington for more than a month, saying they will not return until the Senate passes a measure to end the ongoing government shutdown.

“This case is about whether someone duly elected to the House – who indisputably meets the constitutional qualifications of the office – may be denied her rightful office simply because the Speaker has

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