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“Just seeing if we were paying attention?”: Habeas corpus was quietly deleted from the Constitution on Congress’s website
Internet sleuths discovered a glaring omission from Congress’s official Constitution website. The “Constitution Annotated,” maintained by the Library of Congress, no longer includes the right of habeas corpus, which is a foundational legal protection. While the Library quickly labeled the omission a “coding issue,” critics aren’t buying it.
Officials blame 'coding error' for habeas corpus removal from Constitution website
Matthew Cox, a south Georgia resident, was browsing the law subreddit on Wednesday when a piece of news began spreading quickly. Portions of the U.S. Constitution that enshrine habeas corpus and the powers of Congress had been deleted from the Library of Congress’s website that house its annotated U.
The Library of Congress today said a coding error resulted in the deletion of parts of the US Constitution from Congress' ...
Section 8 and the entirety of Sections 9 and 10 were inaccessible today. The Library of Congress, which maintains the site, attributes the missing sections to a 'coding error.' ...
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