This tactic was obviously illegal, otherwise they would have used it at the outset. So the Republicans resorted to an obviously illegal tactic to push through a bill that has very little support in the state and evokes outrage in the majority of voters. Now they used outrageous tactics to pass their outrageous bill. At the very best, a short-term, pyrrhic victory. Think it's going to come back to bite them? Yeah, I reckon.