Republican Dereliction, Obstruction - Failure To Fulfill Basic Functions Of Their Office

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When Supreme Court attrition created a vacancy during the Obama [D] administration the president chose Merrick Garland. BUT !
Though the Constitution designates the senate's advise & consent role in such presidential appointments, Majority Leader McConnell [R-KY] simply refused to fulfill his Constitutional obligation, altering the ideological balance of the court.

That's not just a once in a century fluke.
Now Speaker Johnson [R] is resisting the swearing in of Arizona's Adelita Grijalva [D].

Mike Johnson Hit With Legal Threat in Epstein Vote Drama​

Ewan Palmer / Wed, October 15, 2025 at 4:32 AM GMT-5

House Speaker Mike Johnson has been threatened with legal action if he does not swear in an Arizona Democrat who could be key to forcing a vote on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes warned Johnson that she will take him to court if Adelita Grijalva is not officially sworn in as the representative for Arizona’s 7th Congressional District following her special election victory in September.
Grijalva, who won the seat previously held by her father, Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who died in March, has pledged to be the 218th and final signature needed on a discharge petition to force a vote on releasing files related to Epstein, the billionaire pedophile who died in prison in 2019.

Mike Johnson Hit With Legal Threat in Epstein Vote Drama

House Speaker Mike Johnson has been threatened with legal action if he does not swear in an Arizona Democrat who could be key to forcing a vote on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes warned Johnson that she will take him to court if Adelita Grijalva is...

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Does Speaker Johnson [R] know something about the content of these Epstein files he's battling to suppress, that Johnson doesn't want you to know about?

Like what?

 

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GOP leader tells women to not take medical advice from Trump health czar who he voted for​

Lauren Sforza / Thu, October 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM EDT
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) suggested that women should not take advice from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after his latest warnings on Tylenol.
MSNBC’s Ali Vitali pressed Thune on whether the Republican Party is headed toward a “party of no dissent” when it comes to agreeing with President Donald Trump on a number of issues. Thune pushed back during the interview that aired on Thursday, noting that he spoke out against the administration’s warnings on Tylenol.
Trump and Kennedy held a press conference last month urging pregnant women not to take Tylenol due to an unsubstantiated link the drug has with autism in children. Medical experts have since reiterated that there is no evidence to support any link between Tylenol and autism.
Thune suggested that women should listen to their doctors instead of Kennedy.

GOP leader tells women to not take medical advice from Trump health czar who he voted for

Senate Majority Leader John Thune suggested that women should listen to their doctor instead of government officials.

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Thune has replaced McConnell as Republican senate leader.
It seems McConnell has handed Thune a smokin' hot political potato in Thune's new leadership role.

The complication for Thune: - He with two masters serves neither. -

Senator Thune tiptoes on egg shells here, simultaneously hoping to not offend the dictatorial Republican party leader,
while not betraying the majority of his constituency, women.

 

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- yes - BUT !
The Dems. should spit out the ball-gag, and begin to pretend to be adults.
Many understand it's not illegal for Speaker Johnson to fulfill his congressional obligations. BUT !!

What the Democrats in general, and Senator Schumer & Representative Jeffries seem determined to ignore,
the Democrats don't need Republican cooperation on this.

Politics :

Does Adelita Grijalva need Mike Johnson to swear her in?​

The U.S. Constitution could give Grijalva a way to bypass the House speaker, a legal scholar says. Grijalva is now exploring legal options, as AG prepares a lawsuit.
Author: Brahm Resnik / Published: 3:45 PM PDT October 18, 2025
PHOENIX — Five weeks after Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva's landslide victory in a special election, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson continues to stonewall the Tucson Democrat on her swearing-in ceremony.

The U.S. Constitution could offer a workaround: Grijalva might not need Johnson to swear her in. A notary public could do it.
“The Constitution itself simply says you must take an oath to defend the Constitution before you're sworn in, but it doesn't say who has to administer that oath,” Thomas Berry, director of constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, said in an interview from Washington, D.C.

“Anyone, even a notary public, is perfectly qualified to administer a binding oath.”

The relevant language is in Article VI of the Constitution.
"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution."

Does Adelita Grijalva need Mike Johnson to swear her in?

The U.S. Constitution could give Grijalva a way to bypass the House speaker, a legal scholar says. Grijalva is now exploring legal options, as AG prepares a lawsuit.

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BUT !
It seems the Democrats would rather play victim.