Legalistic sophistry. No sale, counselor. The denial of quorum manuever was perfectly legitimate, just as you say. Passing this bill without the proper procedures followed isn’t kosher, and the proper procedures were not followed, as you well know. You are comparing a legal and legitimate manuever with an illegal one, and finding them equal. Nope.
Who is instructed or obliged to publish what has no real bearing on the matter, the correct legislative procedure was not followed, and the law is not a law, If it were published in the LRB or published in *Mother Jones *makes no difference, the procedure after the fact is of no consequence, it doesn’t change the facts of the passage of the law, which was bogus.
You are comparing apples and orangutans.