Congress Just Deleted Habeas Corpus From The Constitution On Its Website

[Airyaman]

Well folks, if you're having doubts about how MAGA sees things like powers of denied to Congress, here's your sign:

Congress Just Deleted Habeas Corpus From The Constitution On Its Website - Above the Law

Congress.gov keeps an annotated copy of the Constitution. They have deleted Article I, Section 9.

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Pop quiz: how many sections does Article I of the Constitution have? If you
choose to look it up on the official website of Congress, congress.gov, because
you don’t want to trust not some sketchy Substack for sedition hobbyists, you’d
say it has eight. Except it has ten. Congress has just deleted Section 9 (and 10)
from the website where it maintains the “Constitution Annotated” as a public service.
But it’s gone now. Because the sketchy sedition hobbyists are the ones running Congress
now.

Section 9 includes eight different clauses, but likely the most relevant to
the Republican leadership is the right of habeas corpus. “The Privilege of
the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases
of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it,” reads the
Constitution. At least the copy maintained by the non-profit National
Constitution Center reads that way, because the congressional version
skips it entirely. The Trump administration struggles mightily with habeas
corpus, the provision descended from English legal tradition that gives
people the government locks up — or exports to El Salvadoran torture
camps — the right to force the government to explain why. Homeland
Security Secretary Kristi Noem famously floundered when asked to define
the right, but next time she won’t have to worry because Congress shot it
down like a rambunctious puppy.

And it’s just gone… the copy jumps directly from the end of Section 8 to
Article II. [UPDATE: I was working quickly and didn’t even focus on the
semicolon there. The deletions actually start before the end of Section 8.]

What are sections 9 and 10 of Article 1?

ChatGPT - Constitution sections 9 10

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Interesting no?

 

[phoenix2020]

I suppose that's one way for MAGA to rewrite the Constitution without needing votes. Just edit the thing and post it as the new one. Who's going to stop them?

 

[Greenbeard]

Hmmm.

 

[SCrider]

I’m sure it was just a typo

 

[Individual]

Congress did this?

 

[Airyaman]

Coding error? Lol.

Updated from OP link:

But as 404 Media insightfully points out, this isn’t exactly a dynamic
section of the website. For years no one has even touched it. The thing
about a coding error is it requires someone messing with the coding in
the first place. So who was that? And why?

 

[phoenix2020]

Congress did this?

Unclear. Normally the answer would be yes, since it is Congress's actual website, but this current Congress mostly does what the White House orders it to do, so for all we know, Steve Miller sent in a DOGE kid to start deleting information from Congress's website. The only thing we can be certain about is what whomever did this, and why, is not information that Donald thinks you need to know about.

 

[Binary_Digit]

Best. Government. Ever.

 

[Individual]

Unclear. Normally the answer would be yes, since it is Congress's actual website, but this current Congress mostly does what the White House orders it to do, so for all we know, Steve Miller sent in a DOGE kid to start deleting information from Congress's website. The only thing we can be certain about is what whomever did this, and why, is not information that Donald thinks you need to know about.

If we need to blame someone, begin an investigation and identify the individual(s) responsible.

 

[multivita-man]

Well folks, if you're having doubts about how MAGA sees things like powers of denied to Congress, here's your sign:

Congress Just Deleted Habeas Corpus From The Constitution On Its Website - Above the Law

Congress.gov keeps an annotated copy of the Constitution. They have deleted Article I, Section 9.

abovethelaw.com

What are sections 9 and 10 of Article 1?

ChatGPT - Constitution sections 9 10

Shared via ChatGPT

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Interesting no?

I've been so busy doing house chores I somehow missed this; otherwise, I'm quite sure my head would have exploded. I'm calmer in the morning (usually).

Good God, we're toast. What I want to know is how MAGAs can look at something like this and think that at some point this behavior they tolerate and even endorse won't eventually boomerang back onto them, too. When their SS payments get delayed, when they have a dispute with the IRS, or when they disagree with some other thing the administration does, the right to protest without the fear of being arbitrarily detained and held indefinitely because reasons is one of the most fundamental that exists.

Without the right of habeas corpus, federal officers can arrest you, you can't physically resist, and they can literally warehouse you without charging you, without any legal recourse. This is what they can do in countries that have no rule of law. Habeas corpus, like many other civil liberties, are, to a degree, interdependent. Take one such right away and others essentially meaningless.

 

[Airyaman]

I've been so busy doing house chores I somehow missed this; otherwise, I'm quite sure my head would have exploded. I'm calmer in the morning (usually).

Good God, we're toast. What I want to know is how MAGAs can look at something like this and think that at some point this behavior they tolerate and even endorse won't eventually boomerang back onto them, too. When their SS payments get delayed, when they have a dispute with the IRS, or when they disagree with some other thing the administration does, the right to protest without the fear of being arbitrarily detained and held indefinitely because reasons is one of the most fundamental that exists.

Without the right of habeas corpus, federal officers can arrest you, you can't physically resist, and they can literally warehouse you without charging you, without any legal recourse. This is what they can do in countries that have no rule of law. Habeas corpus, like many other civil liberties, are, to a degree, interdependent. Take one such right away and others essentially meaningless.

The fixed it. They claimed there was a coding error, but the site is static and hadn't been altered in years.

No one is buying the coding error story, but they put it back in any case.

 

[Slartibartfast]

Hmmm.

It looks like they were caught red handed.

 

[multivita-man]

The fixed it. They claimed there was a coding error, but the site is static and hadn't been altered in years.

No one is buying the coding error story, but they put it back in any case.

That they "fixed" it the first time is the problem. It's clear what they're thinking and how they intend to govern.