https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-GMkeFI8rQ
Adelita Grijalva (D) won a special election for Arizona's 7th congressional district on September 23. Up until now, the procedure followed by the 119th US Congress has been to formally install new House representatives the day after their respective special elections, regardless of whether or not the House is in session, but as of October 14 Grijalva has still not been sworn in, with House speaker Mike Johnson having repeatedly postponed Grijalva's inauguration. Johnson's first excuse, claiming without precedent that he needed to wait until the election results were formally certified (despite the results not being in dispute and her opponent having already conceded the race), pushed the swearing in date past the start of a House recess which Johnson himself has continuously extended and which he has since used as an (equally unprecedented) excuse to prevent Grijalva from taking her rightful place as an elected official.
Normally I'd say that any suspected motive is immaterial when it comes to the Speaker of the House, representing the party controlling all branches of government, refusing to seat a democratically elected representative and sabotaging the democratic process in such a brazen, shameless manner, especially considering the precedent it would set if the Republicans are allowed to get away with this. However, considering the topic of this thread and how much the late great Charlie Kirk cared about unveiling the truth about Jeffrey Epstein and his clients (at least until his political allies instructed him to drop the case like a hot turd, after which it required a massive audience backlash for him to backpedal on his claim of being done talking about Epstein), I think it's prudent to bring up the fact that if sworn in, Grijalva's signature would be the last needed to pass a discharge petition, forcing a vote in Congress on the release of the Epstein files. She has pledged to sign it but Mike Johnson, the trusted Guardian Of Pedophiles, won't let her. I can't believe Republicans would tarnish the legacy of Charlie Kirk like this.