Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., signed a petition Wednesday to force a House vote on releasing files related to Jeffrey Epstein, giving it the needed 218 signatures.

Grijalva was sworn in as the newest member of Congress on Wednesday, more than seven weeks after she won a special election in Arizona to fill the House seat last held by her late father.

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      They needed time to destroy not just the evidence in storage, but records in the storage and secure hush payments for anyone who has ever read or seen the most damning evidence.

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      Maybe Dick Durbin will talk about how releasing the Epstein Files is an invasion of privacy, and that we should be the bigger man by forgetting they ever existed.

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      Starting already! Mikey has just sent everyone home again for some vacay after their one vote and the month off before that. With the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays approaching too, my guess is that “there won’t be time” to vote on releasing the files.

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    I thought all this time the vote was to release, now I understand it’s there just to force the house to vote. Probably won’t pass given how it went so far :(

    But we’ll find out

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      Nah. Johnson has been blocking the vote so his republican counterparts can hide behind the lack of a vote. Now they have to put directly on the record that they do/don’t want to release the files.

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    I hope she creates a bill that newly elected seats have a clock that once certified no more than 48h shall elapse before being sworn in or it is automatic and swearing in ceremony becomes only ceremonial. Arizona should’ve sued sooner.

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    Why does she HATE AMERICA with this WITCH HUNT just to See if Trump RAPED LITTLE CHILDREN (Which he NEVER did and he’s SO Sure he Never did that he’s doing EVERYTHING in his and his DOJs power to PROTECT a Person known AROUND the World as a Raper of Children!)!

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    They will never release the files. Most of the MAGS politicians would get arrested.

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      Nobody is getting arrested even if they have video.

      I can’t believe how liberal-pilled our country has become. It’s almost like we’ve lived on a sheltered continent, protected by vast sums of wealth to afford the mightiest armies, that we’ve completely forgotten that there’s no such thing as “law” objectively, it’s just a system paid for by the ruling class to keep the poors in line.

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        Sounds like you’ve been “progessive-agitator-pilled”.

        deep in a nihilist hole while we see that Jeffrey Epstien himself went to jail, And those pardons that Trump keeps handing out? Who do you think convicted them?

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          To be fair, Epstein only eventually went to jail, and those convictions were under an entirely different DOJ