As long as President Mike Johnson continues to refuse to put the house back in session, the reason why the elected representative Adelita Grijalva has not yet sworn.
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I can think of a few reasons why Johnson would address it to swear.
The first is that any voting that may be necessary in the House to end the government’s closure will be close. President Johnson could try to refuse the Democrats an additional vote.
The other possibility is that which Adelita Grijalva has underlined on CNN, namely that it will be the 218th signature of the Denses Petition of Epstein files.
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Grijalva said on CNN central news in response to the question of why she has not yet taken oath:
In general, I try not to be a conspiracy theorist. I agree, okay, there must be a plausible explanation, but in my case, this president Johnson, swore in three other members of the Congress who were elected in a special, and two of them were republicans, on April 1, and they were sworn in on April 2 during a pro formed session. And then we have a representative, Walkinshaw, a sworn democrat about three weeks ago, votes, elected Tuesday, sworn in less than 24 hours later on Wednesday. And there was a pro formed session.
I was in DC. And now I hear the next time the congress will be in session, we had to be in session on September 29, on the 30th, they were canceled. Then we had to be in session on October 7. These were also canceled. And now he has publicly indicated that until the Senate does it, there is something that the room can look at.
Then they don’t come back. So I don’t know. I have an idea of what I could oath and that the speaker’s office had no direct communication with me.
Grijalva said that she had heard other Democrats than the Petition of Discharge of Epstein files was the reason for the delay:
I hear this and I will be the 218th signator of the discharge petition. So it’s the only thing most people point. I am a woman of color, a chicana of Tucson. None of these factors, I do not think, the reasons why it would be sworn other than to point Epstein files and the total lack of transparency.
Of this administration by releasing these files. The other is President Johnson closed the votes in the recent past to avoid a vote on Epstein files, so there seems to be a connection.
Mike Johnson delayed the juron of members of new Democrats before buying time before the votes he was trying to avoid.
In this case, what is uncertain is if Johnson bought time on the government’s closure, Epstein files, or both.
Anyway, something is very rotten, while the president of the room, who became increasingly shady during the government’s closure, avoids swearing in Grijalva.
Are Epstein files why has Grijalva not sworn? Share your reflections in the comments below.