{"id":2413546,"date":"2025-03-17T16:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-should-definitely-keep-picking-fights-they-cant-win\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T16:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:04:02","slug":"democrats-should-definitely-keep-picking-fights-they-cant-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-should-definitely-keep-picking-fights-they-cant-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Should Definitely Keep Picking Fights They Can&#8217;t Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-should-definitely-keep-picking-fights-they-cant-win%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2413546&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - 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And by &ldquo;working,&rdquo; I mean continuing to expose how deeply irrelevant they&rsquo;re making themselves.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-820015596\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The latest episode came Saturday when James Boasberg, a D.C. district judge appointed by Obama, decided it was a good time for <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/17\/protecting-terrorists-is-just-the-latest-of-judge-boasbergs-partisan-activism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a constitutional showdown<\/a> and told the administration he&rsquo;s not sure it has the authority to deport alleged foreign gang members illegally residing in the U.S. Boasberg ordered deportation flights to return, and the White House responded by effectively telling him to check himself. &ldquo;A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft carrying foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PressSec\/status\/1901584664906682833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> administration Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday, we don&rsquo;t really know how this will end up, but it raises the question: When are Democrats going to contribute something useful? Flexing on the president for the sake of it isn&rsquo;t getting them anywhere, as we just saw with the ridiculous funding fight that Democrats are still smarting over because some in their own party did the inevitable and agreed to keep the government open with more money.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Nancy Pelosi chose to vote against the funding bill and called it a <a href=\"https:\/\/pelosi.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/pelosi-statement-government-funding-bill-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;false choice,&rdquo;<\/a> when what she really meant was &ldquo;a choice I didn&rsquo;t like.&rdquo; A false choice is a logical fallacy in which more options are available than what is being presented. There were in fact only two options for Democrats: vote to keep the government open or don&rsquo;t. That either outcome would be advantageous for the White House &mdash;&nbsp;a shutdown would essentially give Trump the authority to zero out whatever federal agencies he wanted &mdash; may have been politically frustrating for Democrats, but it&rsquo;s no one&rsquo;s fault but theirs<\/p>\n<p>They&rsquo;re the ones turning every step of government business into unnecessary drama. And that&rsquo;s only when they&rsquo;re not forcing everyone to confront the reality that orders on the executive branch from the judiciary are only valid to the extent that they can be enforced. Last I checked, the D.C. district court doesn&rsquo;t have an army.<\/p>\n<p>Is that something we need to constantly revisit? We can, though that&rsquo;s going to make for a very long four years.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe they could stop picking fights that they either can&rsquo;t win or that require the country to once again consider just how fragile our republic remains. It would be very easy to break. Democrats act like they&rsquo;re interested in finding out what happens if it does.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">   Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span 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