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Because it's not published in a million other places? Because it's now officially not the law because it's not on this one particular website?

Come on people... you're being rage-baited to hell.



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?


The local Library...

Cornell University's annotated Constitution website...

A physical copy in their personal set of books...

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."


I can hear the face-palming now...


> 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.

Rage baited, indeed.


> You'll probably stew on this all day, even complain to others about it.

Grow up.


Lol this guy thinks ICE detainees are getting lawyers


So please explain for us, how googling this information from one particular website changes your fictitious scenario with ICE detainees?


Lol this guy thinks the executive has bothered pretending we had a functioning legislature since about March


Obviously this has no legal bearing.

The question is why was this removed?

If a simple accident then this is a non-story.

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.




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