On September 23, Arizona voters voted overwhelmingly to elect Adelita Grijalva to succeed her late father, Raúl Grijalva, in the House. But after more than three weeks, House Speaker Mike Johnson has continued to block Grijalva from being sworn in as an official member of the chamber, a move her Democratic colleagues see as an attempt to block a vote on the release of the Epstein files.

On Tuesday, Grijalva returned to Washington, D.C., after her election victory was officially certified by Arizona officials. Politico reports that the representative-elect joined dozens of House Democrats in marching to Johnson’s office to demand that she be sworn into office. She then joined other Democrats, including her fellow members of the Arizona congressional delegation, outside the Capitol,

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