The U.S. Code website hosted on house.gov has been non-functional for one week.
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The Lawfare PodcastOct 8, 2026
None of the sources report the uscode.house.gov status on 2026-10-08, so the claim cannot be graded as of the post date.
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… online, which is an incredible resource for citizens, lawyers of all stripes, anybody who's trying to figure out the current state of the law, because it gets updated with new laws as they get enacted, and they get codified into the US. Code through ROLRC. I mention this because this has been non-functional for the last week, and it's a bit of a bummer. Uh Initially, it says it's down for maintenance, but now we're going on the one week mark that, ah, the Us. Code has been, ah, out of commission on the house dot gov website. So I'm gonna use my object lesson just say, "Hey, Office of the Law Revision Council, how you doing? I'm worried about you. How's that Us. Code going?" …
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Context. The official uscode.house.gov notice dated 2026-10-29 says the site is operating in a temporary format, with some features temporarily unavailable, while the Code remains available from its authoritative source.[3]
Context. The notice describes partial functionality and a current-through date of October 22, 2026, so it does not establish that the site was non-functional for a week as of October 8.[3]
Context. Reuters and AP coverage of October 21-22 government website outages concerns a PHP vulnerability and does not mention the U.S. Code site specifically.[1][2]
Sources
3 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 1 primary
- 1Government websites go dark after AI-discovered flaw sparks security scramblereuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Rush is on to patch a software vulnerability that could impact 70% of websites worldwideapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Site Changes - US Code - House.govuscode.house.gov · primary source · cited for: context
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