This happened Tuesday.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu held a raucous press conference in Beantown on Tuesday, daring Attorney General Pam Bondi to follow through on her letters to blue-city leaders threatening federal action over sanctuary city policies.
Wu, a Democrat, accused the Trump administration of being a party that "doesn't follow the law."
"At a time when this federal administration is already causing so much fear and harm in our communities, these threats are serious and consequential," she said. The remarks came after the Trump administration warned it could sue or cut federal funds if cities refused to cooperate on immigration enforcement.
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Wu then referenced Boston's role in the Revolution, addressing Bondi once more and knocking her home state of Florida as late to the constitutional party.
"We are gathered here today to show you who we are in Boston. More than 100 years before your home state was founded, Bostonians were across the street in Faneuil Hall, setting the foundation for our democracy and rule of law. One hundered years before that, Bostonians were founding the first public school and public park in the country."
"This has always been a city of revolution, of innovation, of standing up for the public good and never bowing down to tyranny. With me today, our fellow public servants and veterans, public safety and faith leaders, civil rights advocates, and labor union members, teachers and business owners, entrepreneurs and artists, youth and seniors."
"This is our city. This is our country, and I'm so proud and grateful to show the world who our community is here in Boston and what we're made of."
The other sanctuary mayors and governors likewise declared themselves to be in a state of insurrection against the federal government.
Politico's got insurrection fever.
Attorney General Pam Bondi's fresh threats to Democrat-led cities and states demanding they drop their "sanctuary" policies is being met this week with a collective nope.
Leaders ranging from the governors of California, Illinois and Minnesota to the mayors of New York City, Denver and Boston are standing their ground on limiting cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration officers in their responses to a letter Bondi sent to more than 30 jurisdictions.
"This ends now," Bondi wrote.
Actually, it doesn't, the Democrats replied by her Tuesday deadline -- uniformly rejecting the Trump administration's assertion that they're interfering with federal immigration enforcement.
"That the federal government would insist that Minnesota should divert state resources to do the federal government's job or help effectuate some kind of misguided political agenda is fundamentally inconsistent with our founding principles as a nation," Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the former Democratic nominee for vice president, said in his letter to the attorney general.
The response letters -- culled from POLITICO's outreach to the 35 cities, counties and states on the Department of Justice's updated "U.S. Sanctuary Jurisdiction List" -- ranged in tone from antagonistic to diplomatic in the face of Bondi's threats of criminal prosecution.
Here's why I wanted to link this:
Subtle.