UPDATE: Missing sections of the Constitution Annotated website have been restored. Upkeep of Constitution Annotated and other digital resources is a critical part of the Library’s mission, and we appreciate the feedback that alerted us to the error and allowed us to fix it. constitution.congress.gov
Why LIE? It’s OBVIOUS this was deliberate. You’re just embarrassed you got caught.
What was the coding error?
It was a lie! The coding error was was this administration aiming to weaken the constitution, so they can continue using hired thugs.
So busted. How do you guys look in the mirror and face your families? Quit now.
It is amazing that the coding error only removed the parts of the Amendment that trump wanted removed. Truly amazing or total bullshit, you make the call.
And that Nazi bitch Stephen Miller.
BUSTED!!
The Central Scrutinizer warned us.
It was deliberate and you're all fascist collaborators. The entirety of your offices be purged once we retake power. Clearly, not a single person running the Library of Congress can be trusted AT ALL.
Sentiment same: Fuck you
Cut and paste is NOT a coding error Has something changed in the Constitution recently that they had to modify it No? Didn't think so So what were they doing? And WHY?
The page is updated when courts make beyw rulings related to the Constitution.
Have they made recent rulings that would rewrite part of the constitution?
Every Supreme Court ruling changes how the Constitution is applied. The site keeps track of that and lower court rulings as necessary. No one is rewriting the Constitution without a ratified amendment.
Yes, it changes how it is applied - without changing the document - so why were select segments of the document suddenly omitted from the document? It should remain untouched unless it is amended through proper procedures.
It looks like they still use XML so when the went to update the annotations they screwed up the tags and the CSS made it display improperly. Could it have been intentional? Sure, but this one feels more like a genuine mistake than the other things we've seen during the Trump administration.
An "error" in the sense that some 22-year-old broccoli-haired Nazi with access to LoC code 'accidentally' deleted a bunch of constitutional law relevant to the illegality of this administration. What a crock of shit.
Do not bash broccoli. N.B. ""During his tenure as the 41st president of the United States, George H. W. Bush frequently mentioned his distaste for broccoli, famously saying: "I do not like broccoli.""" Thus my icon.
You dare enter the Kingdom of Brussels Sprouts?
Roasted with balsamic vinegar I might. If invited.
“Error” sure sure if you say so. What other “errors” haven’t been found yet? “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ― George Orwell
You (and George) said it.
Gonna be REAL interesting when the FOIA requests come in asking for the change logs This wasn't a "coding error" @muellershewrote.com
Unfortunately, as I understand it, the Library of Congress is under the Legislative, and not the Executive branch, and is therefore not subject to FOIA requests. I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this.
That’s correct. They say it was an xml error: bsky.app/profile/libr...
Well congress better get its butt to a hearing.
Glad that the text has been restored, but how can a "coding error" remove part of the text of a fixed document. This doesn't pass the smell test. Rather, it smells like Stephen Miller is trying to hide the "inconvenient" parts of the Constitution.
If this was an actual coding error, you need to prove it. Release the code both before and after the fix.
You think we're all a bunch of dumb hicks, don't you?
Why exactly were any changes being made to the page content at all? The Constitution hasn’t been ratified in decades.
"We got caught, so we undid it!" Screw you.
This explains it 👇 So, now you lie for the convicted CRIMINAL felon. www.npr.org/2025/05/12/n...
Gotcha Twad
MISSING SECTIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION ONLINE??????? Is there no length this regime will go to, to erase our history and change it to their will?????
Piss off
Here’s some feedback, even the dumbest fucking rocks on planet earth know that certain words clearly pertaining to rights the president is infringing upon being gone isn’t a coding error. GO. FUCK. YOURSELVES
I'm sure this is Joe and Hillary's fault. 😏
And it better stay that way.
Dictator only on day one my ass It’s been half a year!!!
Funny it was Habeas corpus and tariff authority.
We don't believe anything you say since Sleazy E's Peter Pan Posse is now calling the shots in your domain.
Definitely not a coding error, it’s HTML
"Oops, they've noticed, let's quickly restore the original state and pretend it was just a weird mistake made by an intern!" Who *actually* believes this bullshittery, apart from some hardcore Trump sycophants?
BTW, next time, just pretend it was an external hack or a "prank" by a gruntled employee. This is at least a tiny bit more believable.
As a programmer I would love to see this coding error.
🤣
Oh wow how convenient.
Only because you were cought, apparently.
Go to hell
I’m really trying to apply Hanlon’s Razor here. But there’s actual Nazis running shit now & I’m finding it difficult unless you provide some actual info as to what you were trying to do, what your change management processes are and if this change followed them or was just some 18 year old doge bro
At some point continued stupidity becomes malice.
They say it was an XML error. Probably they make these kinds of mistakes from time to time, but until now nobody ever suspected the worst. bsky.app/profile/libr...
This seems like a mighty convenient excuse, and while it's plausible it would be very foolish of us not to suspect the worst.
Your theory is they were hoping nobody would notice?
Yes. It appears to me that as a manner of general principle they operate under the following assumptions: 1: everyone is stupid 2: they can do whatever they want as long as they don't get caught 3: when they do get caught they can lie about it because... 1: everyone is stupid
There’s plenty of this in the exec branch, but the library of Congress is going to hold itself to a very high standard. I’d expect it, and libraries generally, to be the last institutions to fall.
I hear you, and as much as I love libraries I know humans are fickle, and for the right price they can be convinced to do anything. Truthfully I have no hope for this country. We've gone too far already.
If they would do that, they'd have staging tests before pushing content or code changes to production, and at least have some manual QA in that process as well. Not all edits may be that obvious, so catching them before going live would be key. Can't imagine such a big bug went through that net.
The only explanations are that they either have no QA process at all, which would be quite bad, or the change was made on purpose and didn't "slip through". As said in the prev post, I can't imagine they don't have any checks in place, so I tend to the latter option.
A few missing pieces could be easy to miss in a QA process that assumes XML crashes when it’s malformed. If their plan was to change the constitution on purpose, why would they revert almost instantly? Obviously, people are going to notice.
Hi there. Front end web developer here. What was the "coding error"?
We need THE NAMES of who did this all the way up and down.
Keep lying, traitors.
Was this a dooge thing or like a missing minute or 3 minute murder/suicide surveillance tape thing? The Incompetence of Fascism.
Fuck you is my feedback. Don’t let this kind of error happen again
You’re so full of shit.
This code should be open source and we should be able to see the changes. Can't possibly be a national security risk and we paid for it. It's the people's code, in the most profound sense.
Might it have been a 20 something DOGE employee?
That wasn't a "coding error." It was coding, on purpose. Try being honest. Vague excuses are not working, these days. Also, "ALLOWED US to fix it?" Seriously? Who is controlling the coding and your website?
By error do you mean presidential pressure? Sorry, but it's hard to believe it was a simple coding error.
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As a former librarian and software tester, bull.fucking.shit 🐂 💩
Buĺllllllllllllllllllshìiiiiiiiiiiiittttttt
Thought you were one of the good guys. This is a shame.
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You mean you got caught.
Can We the People believe anything they say?
Love the headline on that news article 👏
Cool, now answer the important questions: What was the exact "coding error"? Who did it? What were they trying to do?
Yep 👍
There are still some visible problems with the offending file constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...
likely migrated the data to a different table and there wasn't enough room in that element to hold it all so it was truncated.
Right.
The answer is an errant XML tag: bsky.app/profile/libr...
The coding error is DOGE genius’s are snot nosed teenagers who have NO CLUE how to do analysis and made changes without testing. THEY just took the line of code out that referenced the 2 articles and threw it back in the website.
Coding error or someone caught the change?
And either way, refusing to be open about it sets a standard for other parts of government to do the same. Everything's just an oopsie, move along!
They’re being open: bsky.app/profile/libr...
This has been posted twice in this sub thread further down, but here it is again: bsky.app/profile/libr...
If anyone is tempted to accept the innocent oopsie without further explanation, here are a few things we already know the Trump regime HAS vanished: 1. A page showing immigrants are not criminals: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
There is plenty of bad going around, but this was just a mistake: bsky.app/profile/libr...
2. Hundeds of pages of medical info about HIV and other topics he hates. www.clinicaladvisor.com/news/hhs-shu... 3. Emil Bove whistleblower report, conveniently not noticed for 2 months. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
4. Entire humans. Not just kidnapped and dungeoned, but sometimes they can't/won't even say what they did with people. Just one example... www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
I'd like to know this as well. What exactly is going on?
They have provided more info: bsky.app/profile/libr...
Can I get some change-logs up in here?
Can’t wait to see the commit comments. “@bigballs owning the libs by deleting article 1, lololjk”
bigballz can't own the libs. He can't even own a teenager.
😅
He is a teenager! And what was a teenager doing out at 3am anyway! He cant drink or even get into bars.
Were you ever a teenager?
Yes and at 19 my parents were making damn sure I was home before 3am and not plotting to overthrow democracy.
Ok cool. So you werent much fun. (The 3 am stuff. Not the democracy stuff)
Well, he owned himself...
He needs to be pwned
They'll delete this just like they deleted the Epstein list.
Where can we find these "commit" comments?
^^ This. Also the text of the Constitution hasn't changed in 33 years, so who would be making updates?
Annotators following court cases related to Constitutional law
What Katie said!
This is an annotated version, so they update it regularly as different sections are impacted by court decisions. In that sense, it’s a living document.
Yes.
So two sections go missing and a 3rd section is cut in half for a few weeks. Why would you be changing the codes on those static pages? Broken links are possible, but the editing of the text in section 8 would be a different type of error.
This is an annotated version of the constitution, which they update regularly with new links to court cases and resources.
That still doesn't explain why the actual text changed. Such an issue would in general only affect the annotations or break the whole document, and not make just those very specific passages of the original document disappear. It's not how such code behaves.
Plus, for such an important site, you'd have development and staging tests before sending a code change to production. I'm quite sure this website is following this pattern and doesn't depend on live edits of the production website made by an intern.
Who knows. It could be a huge XML file for the whole thing, and a test or human review in staging could easily miss that some text went missing. There’s plenty of bad right now, so I get the paranoia, but they say this was a mistake, they fixed it, and I’m inclined to believe them.
They emailed me. "When updating the site to reflect our constitutional scholars’ analysis of the impact of the latest cases on Article I, Sections 8-10, the team inadvertently removed an XML tag. This prevented publication of everything in Article I after the middle of Section 8."
I hope you update your security measures and check the digital footprint. Maybe you should hire #Anonymous to make your servers more secure. Seek out the best hackers if you want to prevent a "coding" error. But good attempt to cover for DOGE.
You need a bipartisan group to review in entirety as the current regime is corrupt to the core!
There’s no code involved. It’s text (even though it’s HTML). Someone edited the text. Who edited it? Why?
Looking at the source it has the hallmarks of a generated document (extra newlines, extra nested paragraph elements, empty elements) so it's plausible someone changed the code that generated the page from the canonical source and screwed things up.
It appears to be built from XML: bsky.app/profile/libr...
Hand-edited XML without any lint or syntax verification. Still not coding, though terrifyingly reminiscent of the early 90s before everyone decided that XML was an error-prone performance pig and a disaster.
Suuure. Next, you're going to tell us that Trump is 100% sane and 100% competent.
This needs to be independently investigated.
This warrants a special congressional investigation. Shame on those who think the American public too stupid to see through such an obvious lie.
You're still lying.
Yeah, sure it was. Coding problem or dictator wannabe be problem. I'm surprised you didn't just destroy the whole constitution like trump and the Republicans want.
um, yeah
Betcha this "accident" wouldn't have happened in the first place under Carla Hayden.
I call Bullshit. We all know what the "error" was you facist fucks.
Rename yourselves Library of Trump. You are a disgrace.
Oh, I was thinking your mission was to assist the regime in deconstructing 250 years of American democracy. Color me embarrassed.
Yeah no, someone goes under the bus for this one. Someone made several changes across the site to remove that text. Who did it. Who ordered them to do it. Who approved the change requests. Why was the change ordered in the first place.
You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Anyone with any integrity would #ResignInProtest. #MoreOfUs #RiseUp #FightFascism
Error my ass. You all wanted to see if anyone would notice our constitutional rights being deleted. This was a test. In allllll the years it’s been up with no issues, today was no accident.
Is Article III still posted? Please check.
Basic HTML is tough, right? Or is more needed for a 200+ year old document that rarely changes?
I guess everything nowadays is generated by LLMs, so they've probably tried out the new "constitution model" and it misbehaved. That'd at least be a far better "explanation" than just pretending it to be a coding error.
After you found out and dragged.
Who made you take them out in the first place?
Exactly. Time for whistleblower bravery like we saw from Reality Winner during the first rapist felon occupation of our White House.
And if you folks out here believe this line of bullshit, I have a RUMP watch to sell you for $599.99.
......fuckin' better.
