House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Friday that Democrats will respond with quick legal action if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) does not seat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) on Friday.

Arizona’s Democratic attorney general has already threatened to file such a lawsuit against Johnson over his refusal to swear in Grijalva while the House is out of session during the ongoing government shutdown.

Jeffries suggested that suit will proceed if Johnson does not seat Grijalva during a brief pro forma session of the House scheduled for Friday at 2 p.m.

“This has gone on now for weeks,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol. “And so it's my expectation that, if she is not sworn in today — during the pro forma session today — as the Arizona attorney general has made clear, ex

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