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The U.S. Constitution Delivers a 404 Now
From an article in Gizmodo...
https://gizmodo.com/the-u-s-constitution-delivers-a-404-now-2000552847
Donald Trump took power on Monday as the 47th President of the United States, quickly issuing a flurry of clearly illegal executive orders and making changes to the social media accounts and websites controlled by the office of the president. Arguably one of the most shocking changes to the president’s web footprint involves the U.S. Constitution. Anyone who now googles the Constitution and follows the link to the White House website currently sees a 404 error.
Before Jan. 20, 2025, the White House website featured a page that described the Constitution and the history of how it was ratified. The site, as it appeared during Joe Biden’s presidency, is available on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and shows a page about the White House that featured four pages that visitors could navigate to, including Presidents, First Families, The Grounds, and Our Government.
Clicking on Our Government brought visitors to a page explaining the U.S. system, including the judicial, executive, and legislative branch “whose powers are vested in the U.S. Constitution.” That mention of the U.S. Constitution included a hyperlink that brought people to the page that now delivers a 404 error. The disappearance of the page has gone viral on Instagram, thanks to liberal influencer Mercedes Chandler, and it should be noted that the text on all of these pages was non-partisan and reads like anything you might encounter in a middle school textbook about government.
Before Jan. 20, 2025, the White House website featured a page that described the Constitution and the history of how it was ratified. The site, as it appeared during Joe Biden’s presidency, is available on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and shows a page about the White House that featured four pages that visitors could navigate to, including Presidents, First Families, The Grounds, and Our Government.
Clicking on Our Government brought visitors to a page explaining the U.S. system, including the judicial, executive, and legislative branch “whose powers are vested in the U.S. Constitution.” That mention of the U.S. Constitution included a hyperlink that brought people to the page that now delivers a 404 error. The disappearance of the page has gone viral on Instagram, thanks to liberal influencer Mercedes Chandler, and it should be noted that the text on all of these pages was non-partisan and reads like anything you might encounter in a middle school textbook about government.
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