{"id":14567,"date":"2025-10-17T15:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-refuses-to-swear-in-grijalva-brushes-aside-democrats-legal-threat-for-now\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:32:13","slug":"johnson-refuses-to-swear-in-grijalva-brushes-aside-democrats-legal-threat-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-refuses-to-swear-in-grijalva-brushes-aside-democrats-legal-threat-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson refuses to swear in Grijalva, brushes aside Democrats&#8217; legal threat \u2014 for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson is brushing off escalating threats of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/14\/congress\/adelita-grivalja-mike-johnson-legal-threat-00607890\" target=\"_blank\">legal action<\/a> from Democrats if Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva is not sworn in during Friday afternoon\u2019s House pro forma session.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a publicity stunt by a Democrat Attorney General in Arizona who sees a national moment and wants to call me out,\u201d Johnson told reporters Friday of the state&#8217;s AG, Kris Mayes. \u201cShe has nothing whatsoever to do with what&#8217;s happening in Congress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mayes has threatened litigation against Johnson for delaying the swearing in of Grijalva, the Democrat who won the special election more than three weeks ago to succeed her late father, Ra\u00fal Grijalva.<\/p>\n<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his members are backing Mayes up, telling reporters at a press conference Friday morning that \u201call options are on the table\u201d for seating Grijalva. &#8220;As the Arizona Attorney General has made clear, expect swift and decisive legal action\u201d if the swearing-in does not take place Friday afternoon, Jeffries added.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are expected to make another push to have her officially seated during the perfunctory pro forma session in the coming hours, though Republicans are likely to block the move as they have during previous attempts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought Hakeem was a better attorney than that,\u201d Johnson fired back during his own news conference. The speaker reiterated he plans to swear in Grijalva once the House returns from its extended recess to resume conducting legislative business \u2014 but Johnson has said that will only happen once Senate Democrats agree to support House-passed legislation to end the ongoing government shutdown. <\/p>\n<p>The House took its last floor vote nearly a month ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson is brushing off escalating threats of legal action from Democrats if Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva is not sworn in during Friday afternoon\u2019s House pro forma session. \u201cIt\u2019s a publicity stunt by a Democrat Attorney General in Arizona who sees a national moment and wants to call me out,\u201d Johnson told reporters Friday of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}