Edit: as pointed out in a comment below, the official cause is coding error
Compare with the original, from a few weeks back
Half of section 8, governing Congressional power over the military is removed.
Section 9 had, among other things:
- Habeas Corpus the right to get a court hearing instead of arbitrary imprisonment
- a ban on foreign emoluments for the US officials (eg: payments from foreign governments)
Section 10 reserved foreign policy for the federal government instead of the states.
They’re doing annotated sections. If the backend loads sections or parts of sections separately, a corrupt database might cause a problem like this. Also could load each article into a buffee…and article I was too long to fit, so it got truncated.
There is a lot more opportunity for technology to break in interesting ways than most people expect.
Its also sometimes helpful to give an adversary a face-saving way to back down, and a technical problem can be a way to do that.
The way I see it, a technical problem isn’t impossible. But considering the sections removed and the general political climate, I’d call it extremely unlikely
Also, it kind of doesn’t matter. Incompetence isn’t a defense for positions with the most responsibility and power.