Overview

• Library of Congress restored the missing text of Article I Sections 8, 9 and 10 on August 6 around 2 p.m. ET following discovery of the coding error.
• The deleted passages included the writ of habeas corpus, the ban on titles of nobility and the foreign emoluments clause.
• Internet Archive snapshots and reports from Reddit and Lemmy users revealed that the sections disappeared between July 17 and July 21.
• The Constitution Annotated site, maintained by the Congressional Research Service, is a public explanatory resource and not the legal record, so the deletions did not affect U.S. law.
• Officials are now auditing the platform and implementing safeguards to prevent similar disruptions of digital constitutional texts.