General Discussion

Look, what Johnson is doing is unjustified and unforgivable. But the reality is that US statutory law assigns the job of swearing in members to him and doesn't otherwise set a schedule for doing so in the case of members elected via a special election. And a review of past history reveals that the amount of time from election to swearing in varies wildly, with instances of it being delayed for a month to instances of it happening in a matter of days.