What rights to due process? There's nothing in the Constitution about that.

[SavannahMann]

The Congressional Website that has the Constitution on it, has been redacted? Is that a good word for removing parts of it that you don't like?

https://archive.is/mHqOi

Congress’ website for the U.S. Constitution was changed to delete the last two sections of Article I, which include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials.

The last full version of the webpage, archived by the Internet Archive on July 17, still included the now-deleted sections. Parts of Section 8 of Article I, as well as all of Sections 9 and 10 of Article I are now gone from the live site. The deletions, as of August 6, are also archived here. The change was spotted by users on Lemmy, an open-source aggregation platform and forum.

If you find you don't like part of the Constitution, you no longer have to worry about Amending it. You can just delete the parts you don't like. Isn't that so much easier? The Trump Controlled Administration claims this is a coding error. So someone was updating the Constitution? Were there changes to it that the rest of us haven't heard about? For some reason I think an Amendment would make the news.

I wonder what parts they were planning on deleting next?

 

[uptower]

Yup. Up next, term imits...

 

[Lursa]

It was removed from the 5th and 14th Amendments? And I thought it was in the 4th somewhere, guess not.

 

[iliveonramen]

The Congressional Website that has the Constitution on it, has been redacted? Is that a good word for removing parts of it that you don't like?

https://archive.is/mHqOi

Congress’ website for the U.S. Constitution was changed to delete the last two sections of Article I, which include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials.

The last full version of the webpage, archived by the Internet Archive on July 17, still included the now-deleted sections. Parts of Section 8 of Article I, as well as all of Sections 9 and 10 of Article I are now gone from the live site. The deletions, as of August 6, are also archived here. The change was spotted by users on Lemmy, an open-source aggregation platform and forum.

If you find you don't like part of the Constitution, you no longer have to worry about Amending it. You can just delete the parts you don't like. Isn't that so much easier? The Trump Controlled Administration claims this is a coding error. So someone was updating the Constitution? Were there changes to it that the rest of us haven't heard about? For some reason I think an Amendment would make the news.

I wonder what parts they were planning on deleting next?

A "coding error", did their anti-woke/anti-dei program remove it because it included basic rights?

 

[Visbek]

OK, this seems to me like people panicking about nothing.

The website is just an annotated copy of the Constitution. Nothing is getting memory-holed here. The government isn't going to start granting titles of nobility because the line barring it isn't on a Congressional webpage.

The real issue is with the Executive Branch wiping out tons of valid data, in the name of attacking "DEI," or just stuff that Dear Leader just doesn't like.

Whatever is going on, it has nothing to do with what's actually happening in Congress or courtrooms. Focus on the real threats, kthx.

 

[StillBallin75]

The level of this administration's evil is possibly only matched by their incompetence.

 

[SavannahMann]

OK, this seems to me like people panicking about nothing.

The website is just an annotated copy of the Constitution. Nothing is getting memory-holed here. The government isn't going to start granting titles of nobility because the line barring it isn't on a Congressional webpage.

The real issue is with the Executive Branch wiping out tons of valid data, in the name of attacking "DEI," or just stuff that Dear Leader just doesn't like.

Whatever is going on, it has nothing to do with what's actually happening in Congress or courtrooms. Focus on the real threats, kthx.

I'll agree it is a minor thing in the grand scheme. Compared to other data being scrubbed and shut down, this is minor. But it is the Coding Error that has me curious. This is a webpage that you really don't want or need to mess with. Yet they were. Taking out the things that Trump has been accused of doing and wanting. A curious coincidence. Like a guy standing over an unconscious drunk girl in an alleyway. He just happened back there on a whim. It was just an accident that he found her. He had no intention of doing anything.

 

[KingLeo]

Despot Donnie continues rolling on.
And no one is surprised.

 

[Visbek]

The level of this administration's evil is possibly only matched by their incompetence.

Uhhh... The site is operated by Congress. Not the Executive Branch.

 

[Visbek]

I'll agree it is a minor thing in the grand scheme. Compared to other data being scrubbed and shut down, this is minor. But it is the Coding Error that has me curious. This is a webpage that you really don't want or need to mess with. Yet they were.

C'mon, man. It's not some sort of mission critical site. They didn't take an eraser to the original Constitution sitting in Archives.

Taking out the things that Trump has been accused of doing and wanting.

You think Trump wants states to print their own currency and make treaties with foreign nations?

By the way, 9 and 10 are already back on the main page. They're obviously just making minor updates to the annotation pages, which have absolutely zero force in a courtroom. I doubt that anyone pays much attention to this site.

 

[StillBallin75]

Uhhh... The site is operated by Congress. Not the Executive Branch.

Funny how the Librarian of Congress was recently fired by the head of said Executive branch and then this happens then.

 

[StillBallin75]

@Visbek here read up.

Trump Is Trying to Control Congress by Taking Over Its Library - Democracy Docket https://share.google/HnYnHPJXxrFhRx2KV

 

[bomberfox]

C'mon, man. It's not some sort of mission critical site. They didn't take an eraser to the original Constitution sitting in Archives.


You think Trump wants states to print their own currency and make treaties with foreign nations?

By the way, 9 and 10 are already back on the main page. They're obviously just making minor updates to the annotation pages, which have absolutely zero force in a courtroom. I doubt that anyone pays much attention to this site.

It does speak to a pattern that he already has been erasing things he doesnt like from the record as they told us they wanted to do in project 2025

 

[Felis Leo]

Uhhh... The site is operated by Congress. Not the Executive Branch.

Under the Trump Republicans’ gleichschaltung, the three branches of government are one and the same. The executive branch, Congressional Republicans and the Republican-run Supreme Court obey most if not all of Donald Trump’s edicts.

 

[mrjurrs]

Under the Trump Republicans’ gleichschaltung, the three branches of government are one and the same. The executive branch, Congressional Republicans and the Republican-run Supreme Court obey most if not all of Donald Trump’s edicts.

If it wasn't so tragic, it would be amusing that the President's primary responsibility is in the Take Care Clause of the Constitution.Article 2 Section 3-"... he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,..."

 

[ColdHardTruth]

OK, this seems to me like people panicking about nothing.

The website is just an annotated copy of the Constitution. Nothing is getting memory-holed here. The government isn't going to start granting titles of nobility because the line barring it isn't on a Congressional webpage.

The real issue is with the Executive Branch wiping out tons of valid data, in the name of attacking "DEI," or just stuff that Dear Leader just doesn't like.

Whatever is going on, it has nothing to do with what's actually happening in Congress or courtrooms. Focus on the real threats, kthx.

They cannot be trusted.

All republicans need to be removed from government because of this. They have all proven they cannot be trusted.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

They cannot be trusted.

All republicans need to be removed from government because of this. They have all proven they cannot be trusted.

Assuming we do HAVE a midterm election next fall, and assuming the Democrats lay waste to enormous swaths of previous Republican territory, the new Democratic House Speaker has an opportunity
to do what Nancy Pelosi should have done the week after the Insurrection, come what may...

Refuse to seat any Republicans who have lent moral, attempted legal or material support for the January 6 insurrectionists, starting with what remains of the original 147 traitors.



Don't waste your time talking about what a shit storm this would set off, because I am well aware of that fact.
And you're right, it WILL set off a shit storm of epic proportions, one for the history books.
It might even trigger an actual civil war.

So what?
That's coming anyway and the point is, might as well rip the bandage off quickly and start by dealing a death punch to the traitors and let them scramble and try to
counter it.

Of course, best to have a lot of second, third and fourth moves handy because the key to this is to beat them at their own game.
It would be interesting to spitball what those next moves should be, regardless of whether you specifically think refusing to seat traitors is appropo or not.
I'm open to hearing reasons why "we can't make a bold and decisive move like that".

Republicans can always call for special elections to replace the dishonored traitors if they like.

 

[Lovebug]

Ok, so when I first started reading about this I thought no way, the interwebz is forever. Right? The truth is out there (X files reference I suppose and I feel like I'm living in it).
But then I thought about AI and such things. I'm too old to make sense of it all but can recorded facts be manipulated like that?

Ok, you can also just roll your eyes.