Edit: as pointed out in a comment below, the official cause is coding error
Compare with the original, from a few weeks back
Half of section 8, governing Congressional power over the military is removed.
Section 9 had, among other things:
- Habeas Corpus the right to get a court hearing instead of arbitrary imprisonment
- a ban on foreign emoluments for the US officials (eg: payments from foreign governments)
Section 10 reserved foreign policy for the federal government instead of the states.
Section 8 stops at the same point on two independent pages. Is it possible they’re both referencing the same source file? Maybe. But why would this ever get truncated? This isn’t some dynamic page that will have to buffer blocks of text of unknown length. It just doesn’t pass the smell test that the site suddenly can’t display correctly a block of text that hasn’t changed at all in over 200 years. And the sections that are deleted just happen to be those areas that Trump hates the most.
Regardless, we should screaming about this from the mountaintops. If there is one website on the federal government that you do not want to have displayed incorrectly, it’s the fucking Constitution.
I’ve seen over confident jr programmers think that they got it all right and deploy code without checking plenty of times.
Remember “DOGE” is also an effort to update all kinds of servers and codebases to like nodeJS or whatever current flavor of server the new programmers think is cool.
I’m not going to say it might not be intentional, but Hanlon’s razor is still my default for now. (Not with the climate and DHHS pages though, that shit is fascist data manipulation for sure).