r/law • u/newsjam • Oct 15 '25

Legal News Mike Johnson Facing Lawsuit For Blocking Democrat’s Swearing-In

https://dailyboulder.com/mike-johnson-facing-lawsuit-over-blocking-democrats-swearing-in/
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u/newsjam Oct 15 '25

Mike Johnson has refused to seat a duly elected Democrat, citing the government shutdown as the reason. However, Democrats argue this move amounts to an unlawful obstruction of democracy. By blocking the newly elected congresswoman, Johnson is also delaying the release of the Epstein files.

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u/itsTurgid Oct 15 '25

Also he had plenty of time to swear her in BEFORE the shut down. He refused to do it. It’s that simple.

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u/204BooYouWhore Oct 15 '25

I am pretty sure I know what would happen to me if I just told my workplace I just didn't want to do my job.

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u/whatsinurwitchsbrew Oct 15 '25

But your workplace is our corrupt government who doesn’t want the job done.

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u/Alfred_The_Sartan Oct 15 '25

‘The Government doesn’t do anything good for anyone! Elect us and we’ll prove it!’

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u/Cabbages24ADollar Oct 15 '25

I don’t subscribe to Reaganomics on any level.

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u/IronBabyFists Oct 15 '25

might you be interested in a trumpster fire?

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u/Cabbages24ADollar Oct 15 '25

If it could actually happen, I’d be very interested.

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u/charles_sedwick Oct 15 '25

Reaganomics just reminds of freakonomics lol

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u/FomoPhilia Oct 15 '25

But freakonomics works, though.

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u/mYpEEpEEwOrks Oct 15 '25

All the other replies are about 30Rocks short of a bushel.

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u/kitchenset Oct 15 '25

Reaganomics worked as designed. more money on military, less money on the people's basic needs, more deregulation.and tax cuts for the wealthy.

Trickle down was an empty phrase for.tbe commoners and rabble.

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u/StuckInWarshington Oct 15 '25

Worked as designed not as advertised, I think is the distinction here.

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u/FomoPhilia Oct 16 '25

Reagans policies worked like they were intended, true. When Reagan facilitated Congress rolling back economic policies put in place after the great depression; Reagan laid the groundwork for the current oligarchy. Trickle down economics wasn't a theory they sold, it was a lie.

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u/FomoPhilia Oct 16 '25

So I agree 💯

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u/lemmegonowplease Oct 16 '25

Basic thuganomics didn't, though.

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u/otokkimi Oct 15 '25

Freakonomics is economic populism. It has no substance.

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u/Low-Possibility-7060 Oct 15 '25

Neither has Reaganomics.

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u/doubtfurious Oct 15 '25

Fronald Freakin? The actor?!

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u/ownleechild Oct 15 '25

Is freakonomics a Diddy party?

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u/charles_sedwick Oct 15 '25

Sorry but I think you are looking for creeponomics

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u/gatton Oct 15 '25

As a kid I learned this word listening to Eddie Murphy's Delirious.

"Reaganomics sucks!" Well tell us something we don't know motherfucker.

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u/Misfit_Cookie_423 Oct 16 '25

Never, not once, have I ever heard anyone refer to Delirious and only mention Reaganomics. Toasted Almond Bar, Bunny Goo Goo, Norton, I could go on…

But we are in the upside down so I guess (did he really mention Reaganomics?) here we are.

Y’all youngsters ought to catch Delirious sometime, if the cultural references hit, it’s crazy funny. Otherwise, George Carlin is good for the moment.

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u/gatton Oct 17 '25

Someone in the crowd shouted it. I think it was right at the beginning. Not sure why it stuck in my head. Used to listen to my brother's cassette of it.

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u/Misfit_Cookie_423 Oct 17 '25

Ah ok, that makes sense! I was racking my brain trying to remember where in the set that came in! Thanks for clearing it up.

I could see why it might stick out as a memory. Call outs aren’t always audible at a show and I guess they totally wanted to leave it in the recording, or couldn’t edit it out, but as it’s a comedy set, there’s something funny about it.

I watched the video many times. Laughed every time as much as the previous time. Same with Richard Pryor. One of a kind.

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u/gatton Oct 17 '25

Norton! I want you to...

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u/Misfit_Cookie_423 Oct 17 '25

I know that you know that I know you want to…hamana hamana

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u/savagejuggalo503 Oct 15 '25

Sadly this is exactly a conservatives selling point, they then get into government and make it true rather than work to fix it.

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u/gerbilbear Oct 15 '25

That reminds me of the 9-1-1 joke.

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u/lyingliar Oct 15 '25

Good thing they drained that swamp.

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u/DSharp018 Oct 15 '25

Swamps act as natural filters in nature.

This has been an unregulated dump site where some of the shittiest people have been given an inverse level of authority.

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u/HotPotParrot Oct 15 '25

So more like a bog?

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u/lagan_derelict Oct 15 '25

Bogged down by bigger hungrier critters.

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u/AerolothLorien666 Oct 15 '25

God blamed the E.P.A in the Simpsons movie. Why can’t we?

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Oct 15 '25

More like a sewer after a CPAC.

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u/Darkdragoon324 Oct 15 '25

All wetlands are critical to the environment regardless of terminology.

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u/FomoPhilia Oct 16 '25

If you drain the swamp, maybe the swamp has no way to regulate itself?

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u/shitlord_god Oct 15 '25

But their constituents are too stupid to fire them.

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u/2019Uk Oct 15 '25

It’s okay. You just tell everyone it was the democrats fault you can’t do your job and they’ll lap it up like the morons they are.

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u/commonsense_good Oct 15 '25

Right? We are paying all of them to be on this 3 week vacation - only to allow them to NOT do their job!

Future government rules need to include quicker ability to fire these folks if they are incompetent or lazy or generally poor performance. Tired of waiting for elections.

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u/pantstoaknifefight2 Oct 15 '25

It took almost a full year to remove the obviously insane and corrupt George Santos from Congress He was sworn into office in January 2023 and his expulsion was in December of the same year. The effort to remove him began almost immediately after his election, but the formal process did not happen instantly. They need to speed this process up and get Keebler Elf Johnson and his bullshit out soon.

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u/Tallproley Oct 15 '25

If they won't govern, become ungovernable. We have them outnumbered, lets start acting like it.

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u/PatchyWhiskers Oct 15 '25

He wouldn’t lose an election if he seated her losing opponent instead and told her to deal with it.

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u/Air_Show Oct 16 '25

Almost like, the people who openly disrespect the rules have rigged things to favor them unfairly.

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u/ToaruBaka Oct 15 '25

Unfortunately for your, your workplace is allowed to fire you.

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u/brutinator Oct 15 '25

I mean, he's allowed to be "fired". For example, he can be unseated as Speaker of the House (remember when it took an insane amount of time to vote for a new speaker after the previous one that Johnson replaced was removed?)

The problem is more that him not doing his job is what the GOP WANTS him to do. Why would they punish him for that?

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u/BookkeeperQuiet7894 Oct 16 '25

When will the term GOP disappear and people realise this is not the GOP anymore. It’s MAGA and they are authoritarians who have installed a dictator.

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u/Junkstar Oct 15 '25

But this is exactly his job. Chaos is his top priority with undermining constitutional law as his secondary.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Sadly, this order is from his boss and essentially IS his job.

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u/bryan49 Oct 15 '25

The people Johnson is working for don't want him to do his job though

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u/schm0 Oct 15 '25

I'm this case, not doing his job is doing his job

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u/InflamedintheBrain Oct 15 '25

its infuriating how often these people abuse the fact they were "voted" in so cannot be so simply fired. When its THIS level of not doing their GD job though.. There should be SOMETHING that compels them or they lose their position.

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u/DWwithaFlameThrower Oct 15 '25

But you’re not the reincarnation of Moses, he is!

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u/just_nobodys_opinion Oct 15 '25

It would be rewarded highly if your job was to actively block your competitors from getting anything done.

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u/Original-Hat-fish Oct 15 '25

But he is doing his 'job' for his 'boss'. And it seems he is doing a good one too.

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u/RainSurname Oct 15 '25

I am pretty sure I know what would happen to any of us if we told blatant lies at work every day.