Congress.gov just deleted the only clause that blocks indefinite detention. No redirect. No archive. No explanation.
Section 9, the habeas corpus firewall, is gone. Section 10, which limits federal overreach, is erased.
The deletion echoes Trump aides who floated suspension weeks earlier. “The writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion, so that is an option we’re actively looking at” — https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/govt-website-glitch-removes-trump-s-least-favorite-part-of-constitution/ar-AA1K1YOp
“Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country” — https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/govt-website-glitch-removes-trump-s-least-favorite-part-of-constitution/ar-AA1K1YOp
“It has been brought to our attention that some sections of Article 1 are missing… We’ve learned that this is due to a coding error” — https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/govt-website-glitch-removes-trump-s-least-favorite-part-of-constitution/ar-AA1K1YOp
“Congress has just deleted Section 9 (and 10) from the website where it maintains the ‘Constitution Annotated’ as a public service. But it’s gone now” — https://abovethelaw.com/2025/08/congress-just-deleted-habeas-corpus-from-the-constitution-on-its-website/
“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” — https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/key-sections-of-the-us-constitution-deleted-from-governments-website/
Reddit flagged it first. Press defaulted to glitch narrative. Congress never acknowledged losing its own clause. Legal scholars now calling it suspension by stealth.
