The effort, should it pass the House, would still have to pass the GOP-led Senate and be signed into law by President Donald Trump, who has derided the effort. But the House vote would put lawmakers on the record on the issue, forcing Republicans in particular to choose between siding with Trump or backing the release of files that could shine new light on the crimes of the convicted sex offender.

Here are the steps the House will have to take once Grijalva becomes the 218th signature:
How long does it take to ‘ripen’?

If Grijalva signs onto the effort on Wednesday, an additional seven legislative days have to lapse before a member can move to bring the petition to the floor. The week is often referred to as the “ripening” period.

Then, House Speaker Mike Johnson has up to two legislative days to schedule a vote. (But again, calendar days don’t always equal legislative days – the House must be in session.)

That means the first week of December is the earliest the House could actually begin considering a vote to release the Epstein files on the House floor.

The House schedule has been in flux, and the target date could change if the House adds or cancels upcoming days that lawmakers are expected to be in session.
Can GOP leadership delay or dodge the effort?

House Speaker Mike Johnson does have a few maneuvers at his disposal to try to delay or derail the process, including an attempt to table a final vote on the matter or referring it to a committee.

The speaker has previously indicated that if the petition gets 218 signatures, he will allow for a vote. “If they get their signatures, it goes to a vote,” Johnson told reporters last month.

But Johnson also called the effort a “moot point” on CNN earlier this week, citing the House Oversight Committee’s Epstein-related investigation and release of thousands of pages of documents.

Assuming the process moves forward, the House would then have to take a series of procedural votes with hours of debate on the House floor before the bill would receive a final vote.

And then, after all that, the bill would still need to be considered by the Republican-controlled Senate – a dubious prospect – where 60 votes would be needed for it to advance, if it even got a vote.
Will the Senate consider the bill?

Even if Massie’s bill clears the House, there’s no guarantee it would get a vote in the Senate. Majority Leader John Thune has previously told CNN he did not think the chamber needs to pass the legislation, citing the Justice Department’s release of thousands of pages related to the case.

When asked whether the Senate should vote on the bill, the Republican leader said he was “not sure what that achieves.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer attempted to force a vote in September on a bill calling for the release of the files, but Senate Republicans killed the measure — with all but two Republicans voting to derail it.

>>1456991
im assuming it will get a 219th signature

>>1457044
The whole reason why christo pedo Mike Johnson refused to seat Adelita Grijalva was becasue she represented the necessary vote to get the discharge position passed and bypass republican leadership obstruction.

Of course now the pedophile republicans in the senate will block it.
Or if it manages to get passed that, it's extremely obvious the pedophile trump will veto it because he really doesn't want people to see he's on the list and raped children.

Which is strange given even if it all came out, he wouldn't lose any voters.

>>1457045
>He wouldn't lose any voters
Exactly. Republicans are fine with those in power abusing children. Conservative ideology rests on the assumption that some people are inherently superior to others, which not-so-subtly implies the powerful should be able to do what they want. In their minds, men are superior to women/girls, and should be able to abuse them as they please (so long as they're a part of the ubermensch class).

By hanging out with Epstein's victims, Donald is just showing he believes in this perverse doctrine. That just makes his supporters like him more, just like when the pussy-grabbing tape emerged his supporters rallied around him.

>>1457045
Will you apologize when this is yet another nothingburger or no?

>>1457064
If its a nothingburger then why didn't Mike Johnson just swear in that congresswoman like a month ago. He sure took his sweet time to delay releasing a nothingburger.

>>1457065
>why didn't Mike Johnson just swear in that congresswoman like a month ago
The last time the house was in session was September 17th and Adelita Grijalva won her election on September 23.

I know dates and facts are hard for you types of folk, but please do try to keep up

>>1457068
How many times have you spammed this easily dismissed talking point, shill? Do you do it for free or for inconsequential amounts of money? It's sad either way

>>1457068
And he could've sworn her in or called the House back into session at any time.

>>1457076
Are you implying that they purposely didn't swear her in? You poor, naive cuck. Trump has no reason to prevent the truth from coming out. The evidence supports this (since you're clearly pretending to have forgotten):
>Trump directed the FBI and his attorney general to reveal all pertinent documents related to Epstein (they did)
>Trump gave Ghislaine Maxwell incentives to tell the truth (she did)
>Trump has ferociously protected our children through his tariffs (countries are stumbling over each other trying to keep kids safe from fentanyl now)

Let's look at your evidence: an email saying trump told Maxwell to stop. Some of us have long known that Trump stands against child predation. Your evidence to the contrary is... him telling Ghislaine Maxwell the child predation needs to stop?

Pathetic.

>>1457080
So why didn't they swear her in?

>>1457080
Next time just say "I protect pedophiles"

>>1457082
Didn't need to. The house had passed their budget, and Johnson didn't want to reward Democrat terrorists.

>>1457083
No, I believe Bill Clinton should be jailed.

>>1457085
>Didn't need to.
You actually do need to because that left an entire chunk of the country without representation for 2 months for literally no reason.

>>1457085
You're boring, shill

>>1457086
>without representation
Who?

>>1457086
I'm with you anon, but they're not gonna be convinced. Fascists think universal suffrage is a sham, and think the only people with rights should be (whatever ethno-linguistic or political group they personally identify with)
You see this >>1457088 is a low-effort ploy to say something about brown communists fraudulently voting or something moronic.

>>1457085
They have to revote on it now because of McConnell's hemp provision among other things.

>>1457089
>a low-effort ploy
I was trying to understand if you were talking about democrats under her district, public employees in general, union workers or alluding to people who receive SNAP benefits.

You're very sensitive to fascism; whatever that means.

>>1457140
nta but he's clearly talking about fascists, not democrats.

>>1457085
Bill Clinton should be jailed but not Trump for doing the same things
lmao

>>1456991
Trump won't sign this and it's DOA in the Senate.

>>1457080
He was friends with a pedo, that's enough for me to want him dismembered and eviscerated on live television for the nation to enjoy

>>1457080
Good post
>>1457082
Congress had been out of session for a week before she won her election and hasn't opened back up since.
Do try to keep with facts, I know they are tough for you, but I have faith

>>1457369
You are one of the most shameless shills I've ever seen. Don't hurt any kids ok>>1457369

>>1457382
What a weird way to post, putting the reply at both the beginning and the end of the post.
Are you a bot? Or do you just never post here outside of your shill job?

>>1457384
>>1457384
>>1457384
Please turn yourself in before you act on your carnal pedophile desires
>>1457384
>>1457384
>>1457382
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>>1457386
You seem angry. Take a breather, shill-kun

>>1456991
I dont get this story. Republicans have already released 25,000 pages of the Epstein files.

>>1457394
They haven't released the classified files discussing Epstein's association with Israeli intelligence services.

>>1457401
How do you know those files exist?

I'm surprised they haven't pushed for lowering age of consent yet.

Nothing is gonna happen. The FBI works for the DoJ, who work for Trump. The USSC has ruled that he is generally above the law. Any judge who rules against him at any lower level gets death threats from the cult.

It's the perfect American system, borrowed from Soviet Russia, China, North Korea, and any number of tinpot dictatorships throughout history.

All these votes about getting the files released mean absolutely nothing.
The final signature comes down to Trump and he fucking won't release them.

>>1457431
>It's the perfect American system, borrowed from Soviet Russia, China, North Korea, and any number of tinpot dictatorships throughout history.
America is finally ascending to its intended final form lol the beautiful irony in it all
>>1457432
>The final signature comes down to Trump
Such a great system lmao, "Kings bad" yet they made their president into a king as soon as they could after the rebellion.

>>1457438
what's sad is that Trump thinks this will pass down to his kids and grandkids like royalty.

It won't. The cult started and ends with King Donald.

>>1457440
Let's hope so. But I really have a hard time trusting Americans to make the right choices.

>>1457438
>Kings bad
Just to be abundantly clear, the revolution wasn't because "Kings bad". It was because taxes bad. The only reason we didn't end up with a replacement king is Washington didn't want the job.

>>1456991
Nothing.
I don't understand what people expect from these files. You think our corrupt-ass government and the scumbags that run it are not going to hold themselves accountable for their own crimes? That's obviously never going to happen, no matter how much evidence piles up.

>>1457554
Eh, there's a nonzero chance Clinton gets arrested.

>>1457552
And because the founding fathers took a lot of cues from the tyrant hating roman republic, Washington included

>>1457602
To be fair several individuals did in fact propose making George Washington the king of the United States.

Your image is stupid. It implies republicans are not themselves pedos

>>1457606
This dude still up in hurr mad asf that
100% of chomos are LGBTQ

>>1457612
wtf is a chomo?

>>1457616
An LGBTQ

>>1457612
Mom!!!~ Anon is summoning demons to invade /news/ again!