Arizona Attorney General General Kris Mayes has filed a lawsuit over House Speaker Mike Johnson’s delay in swearing in a newly-elected Democrat. In the lawsuit, Mayes argues that Johnson does not have the authority to prevent Adelita Grijalva from taking her seat in the House,

Primetime to talk about on why he's actively calling on Speaker Mike Johnson to bring back the House of Representatives amid the government shutdown. "We're now four straight weeks that the House of Representatives was scheduled to be there,

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Grijalva has vowed to provide the decisive 218th signature on a petition to force a vote on a bill instructing the Department of Justice to release its investigative files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was close friends for years with President Donald Trump.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) suggested Wednesday that the House will not return to the Capitol to vote on an $852 billion Pentagon bill the Senate is set to consider Thursday — unless Senate

House Speaker Mike Johnson called the FBI arrest of a suspected Hamas terrorist in Louisiana “alarming," blaming the Biden administration’s immigration policies.

Johnson, nearly two years into his speakership, is taking a hard line in shutdown negotiations. Speaker Mike Johnson insists he cannot be swayed on the subject of the government shutdown.

Johnson is refusing to swear in the newly elected representative as Democrats step up their protests and Arizona’s attorney general vows legal action.