Yeah why would an administration that is doing mass illegal deportations without due process want to remove freely available information on Habeas Corpus from their websites?
Clearly dumb and very sensationalized! Nothing to see here!
And it's an administration that has a history of trying to rewrite history and deny reality when it conflicts with their goals. And regularly claims fundamental parts of the constitution are "unconstitutional" somehow and are actively trying to get rid of them.
You keep harping on the point that the laws haven't changed. Nobody is arguing that. But how would the average person access the text of the constitution?
Should they not expect to find the full text on the official government website for the constitution?
If I search "US constitution" and congress.gov is the first result, am I dumb for reading that source and believing that is the full text?
If I am detained illegally by ICE and I try to inform myself of my constitutional rights through the official government channels, and am not informed of my right to due process, have I been successfully ragebaited?
And yes you've been successfully rage-baited, as the site problems were over an hour ago. All the text and missing commentary is back up. From the site: "The Constitution Annotated website is currently experiencing data issues. We are working to resolve this issue and regret the inconvenience."
> But how would the average person access the text of the constitution?
Right, because the average person googles the constitution right away when they are arrested?
What are you going to do with this googled info? Show it to the officer and get released? What reality is this even?
Nothing on this website changes anything... so yes, you are being very successfully rage baited, to the literal max. Just look how outraged over nothing you are... getting all worked up over a website on a Wednesday afternoon. You'll probably stew on this all day, even complain to others about it.
If deliberate, then we must understand what was the chain of command and the motivation for deleting references to habeas corpus on this government website.
> doing mass illegal deportations without due process
I think it's wrong to overreact to what Trump is doing and label things you don't like as "lacking due process" because when he does do something illegal you'll be like the boy who cried wolf.
Trump is following the law on immigration but many people think otherwise because of media misinformation. Take the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He had his due process and a judge ordered his removal in 2019. He also received "withholding of removal" from being sent home to El Salvador. The administration made a mistake in deporting him there, but they are ordered to deport him.
Many of the people you see in the news also had their day in court.
But media is also spreading misinformation on arrests. ICE doesn't need warrants to arrest people. This has always been the case. They can also arrest anyone (citizen or not) who commits an illegal act in their presence.
It's okay to not like what Trump is doing, but you should protest to change the law, not deny reality.
Also, I'm surprised you're using "illegal" instead of "undocumented".
Your skipping over a lot here. Like the fact that Garcia wasn't just "sent home" he was sent to prison. Along with 220 other men, at least 200 of which had no criminal records, and at least 50 of which entered the country legally. Against a judges orders.
I get the feeling you're one of the people who's going to be telling me I'm overreacting while we sit shackled together on a bus to Guatemala, where surely there are lawyers waiting for us.
"Technically this isn't illegal, because we've got an extradition treaty with Guatemala, and the court said Trump needed to show evidence in a trial before flying people out, but we're on a bus, not a plane, so really this isn't violating any laws, so it's hard to really call this executive overreach.
Also, there's no law specifically saying the court trial needs to be in an American court room, plus the ICE-built adjunct to the Guatemalan embassy is technically American territory, and the local immigration judge was officially appointed by Congress in a secret session to protect his identity, and of course you can't let media in the room for a closed session. None of this is actually illegal, so I don't know why you're being so hyperbolic."
All of this heavy breathing leaves out that the edit also deletes the U.S. Navy, I mean, if it had any legally binding impact, which thankfully, a website does not.
“Legally Binding” is determined by the courts. The process of overturning sections of the constitution start with claiming they were never there.
The current admin spent months saying the 14th amendment essentially isn’t valid, so they could justify it to their base once they got SCOTUS to overturn birthright citizenship, despite it being plainly enumerated in the 14th amendment.
I've heard ideas I liked less. Let's give the damned airedales back to the Army while we're at it, hey? Buncha fancified cavalry-wannabe jagoffs, they've had swelled heads for fifty years.
Under normal circumstances I could more easily give the benefit of the doubt on this, but the reality is we are not living in any amount of normalcy as far as this administration is concerned.
Of course removing this does not change the law, but this is still an official place for people to view these documents.
Could it have just been someone making an honest mistake? Yeah of course.
Has this administration already been deleting other important information from government websites and this could have been on purpose? Also yes.
Yeah, ok...
A website obviously isn't the Constitution nor the law.
Dumb, over-sensationalized, rage-baiting hit piece. Move along...