The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

Several sections of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution appear to have been removed from the official U.S. government website, as pointed out by sleuths on the internet and as seen by TechCrunch.

The changes were made in the past month, according to the Wayback Machine, which shows the full original text on Congress’ website as of July 17.


Several Reddit threads identified the changes in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution: Large parts of Section 8 have been removed, and Sections 9 and 10 have been deleted altogether. In the screenshot below, you can see the archived version of the site on the Wayback Machine on the left, and the current site on the right — the text highlighted in yellow has been removed.

These sections largely relate to the powers that Congress has and does not have, as well as limitations on the powers of individual states. The removal includes sections relating to habeas corpus, the powers that protect citizens from unlawful detention.

Some of the sections’ text appears missing, as indicated by a trailing semicolon at the end of Section 8, where text used to follow.

In a tweet posted on Wednesday, the Library of Congress said the sections were missing “due to a coding error” and expect it to be “resolved soon.” When contacted by TechCrunch, a spokesperson for the Library of Congress did not say what caused the coding error, or how it was introduced.

Changing the U.S. Constitution’s text on the website does not change or have any effect on U.S. law, but it nevertheless follows senior Trump administration official Stephen Miller’s threats earlier this year to suspend habeas corpus.

When reachd by TechCrunch, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle declined to comment beyond the Library of Congress’ post.

Shiftless2 said:

#1,201

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Trump has already tried bloody insurrection.
According to the Constitution Trump isn't eligible to serve his 2nd term.

I have the uneasy feeling the world is looking on passively as MAGAs prepare to abolish the Constitution, in part or whole.

This is no longer political theatre.
This is war prep. This is banana republic shit.
And the punchline?
Half the country still thinks the Democrats are overreacting.



“Technical State of Civil War”

Let’s dispense with the pleasantries.

We are at war.

Not a shooting war.

Not yet.

But something worse in its own quiet, choking way—a technical state of civil war. The kind of war that makes cowards of rules and turns procedure into shrapnel.

And in Texas, Greg Abbott is lighting the fuse.

On August 4th, Governor Abbott announced—proudly, defiantly—that any Democratic legislator who fails to appear for a surprise session of the Texas state legislature by August 5th will see their seat declared vacant.

This, in a bald attempt to force a quorum for an unscheduled redistricting effort that would gerrymander at least five new Republican congressional seats into existence.
Five seats.

Bought not with votes, but with ink and knives.

Five seats to hold the U.S. House hostage after a 2026 election that, by all current indicators, will be a biblical catastrophe for the Republican Party.

This is not about state politics.

This is not about Texas.

This is about power.

This is about permanently tipping the balance of national representation using the architecture of a dying republic to rig the new one being born behind its back.
It is a dagger aimed at the heart of the Constitution itself—and it is being ....

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Continuing with that theme

Oooops .... the Trump/Epstein cover up continues to backfire

Rep. Mike Flood held a town hall in Nebraska and it went exactly how you'd expect.

Following on #1,206 and what it means

August 6, 2025 (Wednesday)

Members of the House of Representatives are back in their districts for August, and on Monday, Republican Mike Flood of Nebraska held a town hall in Lincoln. A woman asked what she called a fiscal question. She said: “With 450 million FEMA dollars being reallocated to open Alligator Alcatraz, and 600 million taxpayer FEMA dollars being used to now open more concentration camps, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?” The crowd cheered wildly. Nicholas Wu, Cassandra Dumay, and Mia McCarthy of Politico reported today that by the end of Flood’s town hall, “chants of ‘Vote him out!’ threatened to drown out his closing comments.”

The Politico reporters also said that Republicans maintain they aren’t worried about their angry constituents and dismiss the town hall pushback as astroturfed and not reflective of real voter sentiment.

Maybe. But with the political tide running strong against the administration, that position sounds like posturing.

Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on the same day that numbers from that bureau showed a dramatic slowdown in the economy seems to have awakened businesspeople who were willing to back Trump to the reality that he’s pulling down the economy. Today Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook expressed concern about the jobs numbers, suggesting that the big revisions in them “are somewhat typical of ....

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Let’s pretend:
Canada makes maple syrup (because we do!), and we sell it to stores in the United States.

Now imagine this:
A kid in the U.S. wants maple syrup, why because it's so dang yummy!!!!!

He goes to the store and sees a bottle for $6.

But one day, the President of the United States (like Trump) says:

“Let’s put a tariff on that Canadian maple syrup. We’ll charge an extra $3 when it crosses the border.”

What does that mean?

It doesn’t mean Canada pays $3.

It means:

The store in the U.S. now has to pay $3 extra to buy that syrup.

So the store raises the price to $9 to cover the cost.

And now, the kid pays more.

Who pays the $3?

The person in the U.S. is buying the syrup.

Not the Canadian farmer. Not Canada.

The buyer pays. So, the Billions that are pouring 'into' the USA from Tariffs, where is that money coming from? You, the US citizen. Can that be ....

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Sad (amazing) that we have to keep repeating this ....

BREAKING: Georgia's former Republican Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan enrages MAGA world by switching parties to become a Democrat in a stunning rebuke of Trump's party.

This is true political courage...

"There’s no date on a calendar or line in the sand that points to the exact moment in time my political heart changed, but it has,” Duncan wrote in a new op-ed for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “My decision was centered around my daily struggle to love my neighbor, as a Republican.”

He stated that his journey to become a Democrat stated even before Trump attempted to "steal" the election in 2020 and undermine the democratic will of the people.

Duncan reeled off a murder's row of issues he has with the modern Republican Party, citing ....

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