I don’t know if they are just desperate for clicks or what, but otherwise responsible journalists keep advancing the complete fiction that Democrats can somehow pass a “one-time exception” to the filibuster for whatever pet issue is popular at the time.
The latest spreader of this misinformation is the Washington Post’s Amber Phillips, who claims there are three possible outcomes as Democrats debate whether they should nuke the filibuster to pass a national ban on voter identification laws.
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