This came up in the thread last night. Why would you dynamically load content that, practically, never changes?
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MAGA is, of course, telling everyone to calm down, because it's a "coding error".
MAGA, of course, has no critical thinking skills, and so doesn't question why a static document was being edited so specifically in the first place.
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Awfully specific sections that didn't load.
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For those curious+lazy, the removed sections were "pertaining to Habeas Corpus and judicial review of unlawful detention".
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Whoopsie, what a mistake to make.
This is just like all those times he 'accidentally' ;-);-) raped all the little children and then refused to release the Epstein list.
They're just trying to make it harder to look up your rights. If they were actually trying to erase these sections there would be lawsuits or bills going through congress. Not saying that they aren't going to do that, just that this particular instance is more trying to withhold information.
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Curious "coding error". The only "coding error" I can see here is that they already prepared the site for future changes they plan, and just executed them early.
People should read up on the leadership conflict currently going on at the Library of Congress.
On May 8, 2025, two days after Hayden had given testimony to the Senate Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on House Administration,[80][81] via email and without any explanation, she was abruptly fired by President Trump ... No replacement of Hayden has been nominated. Principal Deputy Librarian Robert Newlen,[86] who would have served as interim librarian was fired and Trump named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as acting librarian of Congress and later fired the deputy librarian and copyright office director (Perlmutter and Newlen), appointing senior DOJ officials Brian Nieves and Paul Perkins as respectively, for the interim. This has been interpreted as an attack on the separation of powers.[87] Perlmutter has sued to dispute the legality of the dismissal,[88] as the Register is appointed by, and responsible to, the Librarian of Congress.
So currently there are two conflicting acting directors of LOC. One, who is a lawyer, appointed by Trump, whom noone at LOC accepts, and one librarian, who does the actual day to day administration.
It is curious that the article doesn't mention who is speaking for the LOC, they are just twitter messages by the LOC account. I bet that while the Trump sycophant has no power over any of the librarians in LOC, he is in control of the LOC twitter account and the website, with some external techbros doing his bidding, and that is all he has to play with, yet unsurprisingly enough still managed to turn everything into shit just with those slivers of control.
The actual staff of the LOC are just doing their library thing (their youtube channel has been very active lately with some knowledgeable and interesting stuff), while this piece of shit is busy doing his Trump shit.
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We have been working to correct this and expect it to be resolved soon
Lol, this is a static site. A 5 minute change. Even if they have a process to run all changes through review and testing before deployment (which they don't or else this kind of "coding error" wouldn't have happened), this is fixed same-day. They're lying.
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Turns out, all the Republican "constitutionalists" ever meant was that they wanted to be able to yell slurs and kill brown people with impunity. They just had to hide it behind noble-sounding language until the right Nazis were in power.
Release the Epstein files.
Yes, a mistake. Which just happened to wipe out the exact parts of the Constitution that the President has been ignoring.
You know what? I'm going long con on this. I think some badass Librarian deleted those sections so that we would have to acknowledge publicly that those rights are indeed guaranteed in the Constitution.
"The dog ate the cookies!" said the toddler caught with chocolate on his face and his arm in the jar.
Are they trying to pull an Animal Farm on the constitution?
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While technically plausible, I bet the explanation is somewhere in the middle:
Some Trump loyalist with access to this website, perhaps inspired by internal discussions or news, deleted these sections from the databases.
…Or something like that. Other extremes (following an official order, or a massively coincidental technical accident) just feel too implausible to be true.
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"coder" (stupid person term for what I do) here: No, this wasn't an accident.
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It’s sad that they think editing some html will in some way further their agenda to ignore the actual document.
And it’s sad that they might be right.
Off by one error I could believe if the articles are displayed through an array and not a purely plain text in a div. Off by two error I think not.
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If we ever get out of Trump's bullshit. We need a total rework of the power for the executive branch. It's been run on "good faith" for too long.
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MAGA: "Coding error."
Translation: "The intent was to mark those sections deprecated for future deletion, but due to incompetence, the future version was published instead. We will revert that change until the legal formalities have been resolved."
It’s like seeing a toddler with chocolate on their face denying that they just ate chocolate.
Very conveniently selected "error" I'd say.
I mean, his voters will believe it.
They'd jump off the empire state building if the Administration told them it would pwn the libs.
Ok, so should be easy and not controversial to restore them right?
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Classic error ID10T. Happens all the time when there's a short between the keyboard and chair.
I can fix that error for a measly $2M.
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