Adelita Grijalva, the Arizona Democrat who won a special election to fill her late father’s vacant congressional seat, was finally sworn in on Wednesday, 50 days after her victory, due to a delay by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana).

On the day of her swearing-in, Grijalva became the 218th lawmaker to sign a discharge petition that will force a vote in the House of Representatives on the release of thousands of pages of Department of Justice (DOJ) files on sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Johnson had claimed he was delaying swearing in Grijalva because the House was out of session, a decision he made due to the government shutdown. He insisted that refusing to seat Grijalva was consistent with precedent set by former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Califo

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