Several sections of Article 1 of the US Constitution appear to have been removed from the official US government website, as seen on Detectives and TechCrunch on the Internet.
According to the Wayback Machine, the change shows the original full text on the Congress website as of July 17th.
Several Reddit threads have identified changes to Article 1 of the US Constitution. Most of Section 8 has been removed, and Sections 9 and 10 have been removed completely. In the screenshot below, you can see the archived version of the Wayback machine on the left and the current site on the right.
These sections are primarily related to the authority that Congress has and does not have, and the limitations of individual state powers. The removal includes sections relating to habeas, which are the power to protect citizens from illegal detention.
Some of the text in the section appears to be missing, as indicated by the subsequent semicolon at the end of section 8.
In a tweet posted Wednesday, the Library of Congress said it lacked “due to coding errors” in its section and it expects it will “resolve soon.” When contacted by TechCrunch, a spokesman for the Library of Congress did not say what caused the coding error or how it was introduced.
Changing the text of the US Constitution on the website will not change or affect US law, but it will still halt the habeas corpus following the threat of Stephen Miller, a Trump administration official, earlier this year.
When TechCrunch reached, White House spokesman Davis Ingle declined to comment beyond the Library of Congress post.
Details from the Library of Congress and responses from the White House have been updated.
