Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes today announced that Arizona, alongside Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. against the U.S. House of Representatives seeking to ensure Ms. Grijalva’s swearing in as a member of Congress following her election last month.

 “Speaker Mike Johnson is actively stripping the people of Arizona of one of their seats in Congress and disenfranchising the voters of Arizona’s seventh Congressional district in the process,” said Attorney General Mayes. “By blocking Adelita Grijalva from taking her rightful oath of office, he is subjecting Arizona’s seventh Congressional district to taxation without representation. I will not allow Arizonans to be silenced or treated as second-class citizens in their own democracy.”