Originally published at: Arizona AG, Rep-elect Grijalva Sue House to Force Her Long-Delayed Swearing In
The Arizona Attorney General and Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva (D) sued on Tuesday to force House Speaker Mike Johnson to finally swear her in formally. This is a breaking news story and will be updated. Read the lawsuit here.
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For a fundamentalist, Johnson is a really bad liar.
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The smirking weasel is enjoying himself. This trolling is just another example of “we have the power” and “it s*cks to be you” MAGA GOP governance.
When the Democrats retake the House in 2026 they need to remind the GOP of another saying: Payback is a …
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On the Borowitz Report Speaker Johnson chose to be put in a coma to avoid swearing in Grijalva
Here is a quote from that report:
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Calling it “the nuclear option,” House Speaker Mike Johnson opted on Tuesday to enter a medically induced coma to avoid swearing in newly elected Democratic congresswoman Adelita Grijalva.
Johnson spoke to reporters at Walter Reed Army Medical Center moments before doctors administered pentobarbital through an intravenous tube connected to his left hand.
“I’m doing this as a last resort,” he said. “I was really hoping that people would forget about the Epstein files or that the Rapture would happen, but no such luck.”
A Republican colleague who visited Johnson’s bedside hours after he fell into the coma said that the Speaker “seemed like his usual self.”
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2 things: 1st, the latest site revision is horrible! Everytime TPM remodels the site they seem to make it more difficult to use. I suspect they are using the supermarket style, in which you have walk around in circles inside to find anything you are looking for (Hoping you will decide to buy (or read, in this case…) other things along the way).
2nd, the failure to seat Grijalva just doesn’t make any sense. The petitioners are dug in so the request to release the Epstein report is going to go through eventually anyway. He is just keeping the story alive through his petty refusal. I remember when House Speakers were like giants. Mike Johnson seems to be a really small man…
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