Republicans refuse to swear in Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva
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This is insane.
Among the many blatant breeches of baseline normal reality for American politics this one should be especially notable because it isn't just the executive branch doing a crazy illegal thing, this is line GOP in the House straight up refusing to swear in a duly elected official for no real reason.
Really should make you question anyone who says the party will just return to normal if Trump is pushed out of office.
It’s unclear why Grijalva has not been sworn in, though she has a hypothesis: that it has to do with her stance on the federal investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and her identity.
The former explanation has been offered by at least two Republicans and many Democrats. They claim that Johnson has shut down the House to block a vote on a bill requiring the release of federal investigative files into Epstein’s crimes.
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— Via Paul Kane, Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva still has not been sworn in - The Washington Post