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By AZ Mirror
The Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is thumbing his nose at the Constitution by failing to seat a Tucson Democrat nearly a month after her overwhelming victory in a September special election, U.S. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva and Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes argued in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Grijalva and Mayes want a court to declare that Mike Johnson, the GOP speaker from Louisiana, is acting unconstitutionally by refusing to allow the Democrat to take the oath of office and begin serving in Congress. They want the court to either force him to seat her or allow someone else to administer the oath of office if Johnson continues to refuse.
“Speaker Johnson’s obstruction has gone far beyond petty partisan politics — it’s an unlawful breach of our Constitution and the democratic process,” Grijalva said in a statement. “The voters of Southern Arizona made their choice, yet for four weeks, he has refused to seat a duly elected Member of Congress — denying Southern Arizona its constitutional representation.”
