They would be foolish to nuke the filibuster over this, as statehood for DC requires a constitutional amendment, as provided for by the dems own proposed legislation.
Yes, when the Democratic-controlled House passed D.C. statehood in mid-2020, the press and others acted like its chances of surviving a Supreme Court challenge were iffy, and of course that was even before Ginsburg died and got replaced by Amy Coney Barrett.
It failing at the Supreme Court would kill the issue forever sans a constitutional amendment. It almost makes me wonder if it’d be a smart chess move to let it pass if you think the current Court will strike it down, because if you block it, and Dems have a House and Senate majority in the future and some Democratic presidents like Biden or Harris have replaced a couple of the Court’s conservatives...