TechCrunch reported the missing text after it was discovered in a discussion on a Reddit thread. Users had noticed that there were sections missing from the US Constitution on a government website.
According to an X post from the Library of Congress, the missing sections were due to a “coding error.”
That might make sense if the Constitution was something new that had just been added to the website recently (though even then, most web developers check their work thoroughly before it “goes live” and becomes visible to the public).
However, the coding error excuse doesn’t make sense when it’s something that was already published online. What reason would someone have to be editing that document? A missing sentence perhaps, but there were entire sections missing from the US Constitution.
This comes after Stephen Miller told the press that the administration could ‘suspend the right to due process if they want,’ about the deportation of undocumented immigrants.
That brings to mind a certain banner from an ICE detention center protest.
If you’re someone who doesn’t care that immigrants (some here legally) were shipped off to CECOT without due process (75% of them innocent), as the banner above says: First they came for the immigrants..
But they won’t stop there.
If you one day find yourself under arrest and you aren’t given an opportunity to plead your case in a court of law, remember when you ‘didn’t care’ that others had their right to due process stripped away.
Yes, undocumented immigrants have the same rights.
Sections missing from the US Constitution
From reporting by TechCrunch:
Some of the sections’ text appears missing, as indicated by a trailing semicolon at the end of Section 8, where text used to follow.
In a tweet posted on Wednesday, the Library of Congress said the sections were missing “due to a coding error” and expect it to be “resolved soon.” When contacted by TechCrunch, a spokesperson for the Library of Congress did not say what caused the coding error, or how it was introduced.
Changing the U.S. Constitution’s text on the website does not change or have any effect on U.S. law, but it nevertheless follows senior Trump administration official Stephen Miller’s threats earlier this year to suspend habeas corpus.
When reached by TechCrunch, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle declined to comment beyond the Library of Congress’ post.
What do you think? Coding error or future plans of the Trump Administration?
