Gonna get hate on this, here we go. It was a dumb mistake. "Come now, let us reason together."

(Not trolling you guys or simping for Trump. I'd honestly like to hear any rebuttals.)

Nah, don't think it was a "coding error" but when whoever explained whatever to whoever, that's how it was interpreted. Or, public relations figured that would be a more acceptable answer than whatever dumber mistake was made. LOL, somebody fucked up the copy/paste?

They seemed to have cut off entire blocks, big chunks off the end of Article 1. Plenty of other items in there than what we're talking about. If they had been more surgical I'd be screaming.

Who the hell wanting to read the Constitution goes to constitution.congress.gov? I've looked up bits of text 100 times, wasn't even aware this site existed. Besides, not like this is the one authoritative online copy, it's not even the only government copy.

The site isn't high on the search results from either Google or Bing, and it was even lower yesterday. Feel free to check me! Search "united states constitution" then "united states constitution before:2025-08-04".

What would the Trump administration, or anyone else, have to gain? The only people looking here are probably already familiar with these vital chunks, not like the administration can say, "Nuh uh! That's not in the Constitution!" All risk, no reward. Anyone thinking this was nefarious has to confront that question head on.

Lastly, with all the staffing cuts and an inept administration, a dumb mistake fits Hanlon's Razor quite nicely. I could also see some MAGA staffer pulling this on purpose, dumb enough to think it would make a difference.

tl:dr; No damn cat, and no damn cradle.