Arizona AG Sues Speaker Mike Johnson to Force Adelita Grijalva’s Swearing-In

David Gilmour Oct 22nd, 2025, 7:00 am

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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of “a brazen act of voter disenfranchisement” for refusing to seat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva , the Democrat who won last month’s special election to fill her late father’s seat.

“For weeks, the speaker has stonewalled, delayed and twisted himself into knots trying to justify what is, at its core, a brazen act of voter disenfranchisement,” Mayes wrote in an MSNBC op-ed on Tuesday , arguing that “Arizona will not beg for its full representation in Congress.”

Johnson has said he’ll swear in Grijalva once the government reopen

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