One of the sections that was removed from the U.S. Constitution website referenced the writ of habeas corpus.
In August 2025, many people on social media started talking about a rumor of changes to the U.S. Constitution website maintained by the Library of Congress. A Reddit thread (archived) that received tens of thousands of upvotes within a few hours claimed sections were removed from the Constitution's text on the website, including Article 1, Section 9; Article 1, Section 10; and the portion referencing the writ of habeas corpus.
The claim spread to other social media sites, such as Facebook (archived) and Bluesky (archived), where people added that the section disallowing the government from granting titles of nobility also was removed. Many Snopes readers reached out to ask whether the rumor was true after seeing it online.
The claim was true. Portions of Article 1, Section 8, as well as the entirety of Article 1, sections 9 and 10, were removed from the text of the Constitution on the Library of Congress' Constitution website as of Aug. 6, 2025.
The Library of Congress maintains a website with information on the Constitution, including a page that is meant to contain the full text of the Constitution with annotations.
