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Key sections of a US government website that hosts the Constitution have vanished. On Wednesday, Reddit users noticed that the section of the Library of Congress website for the US Constitution was missing sections, including “the Writ of Habeas Corpus,” which protects citizens from unlawful detention. A before-and-after view from the Internet Archive shows the site omitting parts of Section 8 and the entirety of Sections 9 and 10, which were accessible last month. Another part that was removed says, "No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them." The omissions have sparked worry that the Trump administration changed the site. One Constitutional law professor even tweeted: “Do I have to teach Art. I Sec. 9 and Sec. 10 now that they're removed from the congressional website?” However, the Library of Congress attributes the missing text to a “coding error,” without elaborating. “We have been working to cor...

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