Adelita Grijalva participates in House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' news conference in the US Capitol on October 21, 2025. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty Images/File

After 50 days of waiting, Rep. Adelita Grijalva was sworn into Congress Wednesday, bringing an end to a contentious chapter in the US House of Representatives that included a lawsuit and rising tensions inside the Capitol over her seating.

Speaker Mike Johnson had said he would not swear in the Arizona Democrat amid the government shutdown until the House returned to legislative session, a delay that prompted outrage from Democrats. The swearing in took place after the chamber reconvened to vote on a Senate-passed bill to reopen the government.

While she waited to be sworn in, Grijalva had been unable to pe

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