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Taylor Kordsiemon
@tkords.bsky.social
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Dad. Lawyering in Utah. Occasional pretend scholar. Movies. Books. Utah Jazz.

Lawyer work: https://www.mc2b.com/taylor-kordsiemon
Pretend scholar work: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3465182
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I’m a horror fanatic. My wife is … not. But she’ll watch one horror flick with me each year on Halloween.

This year it was Ready or Not. I’ve seen it a dozen times and it still rocks. Perfect horror comedy. 10/10.
Theatrical movie poster for the film “Ready or Not.” It features a blonde woman in a torn up wedding dress wearing a sleeve of shotgun shells, with blood dripping down the backdrop.
November 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Poster for the film “28 Days Later,” featuring a rage-virus-infected monkey.
October 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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The Genius v. SCOTUS We are living in Jonathan Mitchell's world. And the judicial supremacists can't stand it. JOSH BLACKMAN | 11.2.2021 2:49 PM
October 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Hard to take DHS seriously when they say citizen recordings are illegal but they’ve got a whole reality TV setup documenting their actions.
Post by Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net): “ICE is not only chasing Don every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.” The post’s text is followed by a screenshot of security camera footage showing an ICE cameraman filming as officers seize two individuals.
October 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Decided to test competing queries on AI Mode. For Trump, it just lists sources. For Biden, it’s a full write-up.
October 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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In light of the Trump Admin’s new birthright citizenship appeal at SCOTUS, I’m re-upping this thread on their butchered analysis of Wong Kim Ark.
Three decades after the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, the Supreme Court ruled in US v. Wong Kim Ark that people born in the United States – in that case, the son of Chinese immigrants – are entitled to US citizenship, with a few narrow exceptions. But the administration argued in its appeal that the precedent has long been misunderstood. The Wong Kim Ark decision recognized citizenship for people born in the United States who enjoyed “permanent domicil and residence” in the country, US Solicitor General Sauer argued.
September 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Although as others have pointed out, the second question is very concerning and potentially goes beyond just overruling Humphrey’s.
Second question: Whether a federal court may prevent a person’s removal from public office, either through relief at equity or at law.
September 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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This is so damn hardcore. Thanks for the history lesson, @unavaleable.bsky.social.
“If the House was at all apprehensive of any wrongful intervention of the Supreme Court … [then] sweep away at once their appellate jurisdiction in all cases, and leave the tribuna, without even the color or appearance of authority for their wrongful intervention.” And if the Court would not uphold such a jurisdiction-stripping law, the Congress should “defy judicial usurpation by annihilating the usurpers in the abolition of the tribunal.”
September 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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If anyone is curious about why home prices are skyrocketing in Utah, this is a comment reacting to a proposal to reduce minimum lot size requirements from one acre to a half acre. #nimby
Facebook comment: “This is how communism takes over.”
August 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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I was excited to get this notification from Libby this morning!
Notice from Libby library app informing me that the Salt Lake County Library obtained a copy of Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang.
August 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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It makes no sense to me that companies have standing to raise these types of challenges. Even if ALJ’s are unconstitutionally insulated from removal, the President should be the only one to have standing to raise that issue.
Three Texas companies, including SpaceX, run to court to prevent unfair labor practice hearings before the NLRB. They claim both NLRB ALJs and NLRB board members are unconstitutionally protected from removal by the President. Fifth Circuit: Indeed. The ALJs can only be removed if another board finds cause, and the members of that board are themselves protected from removal without cause. Plus, NLRB members kind of obviously wield some important powers. That makes for-cause protections pretty sus.
August 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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I don’t see this in the complaint, but it is also plausible that doctors would be harmed by facing greater exposure to infectious diseases. Regardless, Jane Doe definitely seems to have standing.
Jane Doe is a pregnant physician. She was vaccinated against COVID before the new guidance, but her doctors recommended another dose as some future point in her pregnancy. Due to RFK’s new vaccine policies, there are barriers to her getting the recommended booster.
July 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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The author really doesn’t try to hide the ball. After arguing at length that the Constitution’s references to “the People” must be understood as including only “white Americans,” he ends with this horrifying conclusion.
Our Constitution will survive only if “the people share a common, historic commitment to certain simple but fundamental principles which preserve their freedom.”92 One of those principles, accepted by our Founders who as a whole “unambiguously conceived of the United States as a White country,”%? was nationalism—specifically, racial nationalism. If we abandon that principle while turning over America to a non-White majority, a majority that will not share a common, historic commitment to anything, what else shall we abandon along the way? If non-Whites believe that America’s White nationalist founding “deserves a place of dishonor’ in our history, then—given the fundamentality of this principle in the original constitutional framework—what is to stop any other constitutional provision from being similarly repudiated? The Supreme Court and inferior federal courts have the power to arrest the dispossession of White America. All they must do is substitute bad landmark precedent for good landmark precedent. Failure to do so is not judicial humility, but, at best, judicial surrender in the face of a terrible crime. At worst, it is complicity in that crime. The People cannot be expected to meekly swallow this demographic assault on their sovereignty. If the People are not granted relief from the government—which includes the judiciary—then, if they are to survive as masters in the land of their ancestors, they must exercise “their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow” the government.% And that will be a process which no deskbound jurist can gleefully look forward to; for it will be a controversy decided not by the careful balance of Justitia’s scales, but by the gruesome slashing of her sword.
June 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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That is blatantly untrue. In fact, the introduction of the paper makes clear that the author is making a “normative” argument the the principles of “national constitutionalism” be “preserved and aggressively asserted.”
This paper proposes that constitutional governance relies upon several structural principles and implicit assumptions—rooted in our national history and the Constitution’s text—about the significance of “We the People” in the constitutional scheme. This descriptive claim, coupled with a normative claim that these principles and assumptions should be preserved and aggressively asserted, is termed “national constitutionalism.” National constitutionalism posits that, regardless of certain textual provisions with a seemingly open-ended scope of application, the Constitution’s establishment of a nation-state under the sovereignty of the People must be considered its paramount purpose which may not be permissibly undermined by any governmental acts or omissions absent the direct and unambiguous consent of the People.! Originalism’s two dominant varieties—original
June 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Blackman says that the paper appeared to present its thesis only as “a matter of scholarship,” and it is only with the “benefit of hindsight” that “we know that the author was in fact also articulating his own policy preferences.”
The author does repeatedly refer to a preference for White people, and blocking non-White immigrants. At least in this paper, the Author frames this preference in terms of how the Framers would have understood immigration--I think he accurately describes that history. Now, with the benefit of hindsight, we know that the author was in fact also articulating his own policy preferences. But based on the paper, the author was presenting this thesis as a matter of scholarship.
June 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Must have forgot to read the label.
Label from Apple-a-Day Electrolyte product listing ingredients and cautionary items, including that the product is “for use in horses only.”
June 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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DW from Arthur looking at a hanging piece of paper and saying, “That sign can’t stop me because I can’t read!”
May 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Also curious if the flier included *personal* numbers and addresses rather than office numbers. If not, no chance it contained “restricted personal information.”
1) the term “restricted personal information” means, with respect to an individual, the Social Security number, the home address, home phone number, mobile phone number, personal email, or home fax number of, and identifiable to, that individual;
May 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Literally all I ever wanted was for Gobert to dominate small-ball lineups in the Playoffs when he played for the Jazz.
Rudy Gobert dominates small-ball Lakers and the Timberwolves advance with 103-96 win in Game 5.
May 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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UVA alumni returning to their historic roots
Picture of Ty Jerome, former basketball player for UVA and current player on the Cleveland Cavaliers, with the headline: “The Brian Winters Award for Player Who Looks Most Like a Civil War General.”
April 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Having to go through some
Founding Era newspapers for some research I’m doing, and I was unprepared for some of the advertisements I’ve come across.
A woman who can be well recommended, wishes to take a Child to her house to nurse—Her own child being dead is the occasion of this advertisement. Enquire of the Printers.
March 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Shoutout to Adam Unikowsky for doing the empirical work.

adamunikowsky.substack.com/p/does-stand...
March 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Justice Alito? A results-first hack? How dare you?!
Empirical data shows that Alito is the most pro-prosecution justice on the Supreme Court, voting in favor of criminal defendants only 20 percent of the time. But he’s tripped over himself to protect one criminal defendant in particular: Donald Trump. An empirical analysis of the Court’s “standing” decisions — cases asking whether the federal courts have jurisdiction over a particular dispute — found that Alito rules in favor of conservative litigants 100 percent of the time, and against liberal litigants in every single case.
March 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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A permanent resident got disappeared without a warrant or due process for expressing unpopular opinions? The libertarians must be outraged!

Oh.
Mahmoud Khalil, the Great Rorschach Test Plus: Ukraine attacks Russia with drones, Newsom's revisionist history, and more... LIZ WOLFE | 3.11.2025 9:33 AM There's an interesting, more philosophical question raised by the Mahmoud Khalil case: Should people who have come here on visas, who are still awaiting full citizenship, be treated as guests, having their commitment to the American project weighed and judged? It strikes me as intellectually reasonable to want to engage in some amount of gatekeeping when you decide who ought to be granted the great gift of American citizenship; when a guest here indicates they don't value the same things we seek in our newcomers, does that present a problem? Khalil feels like a Rorschach, where people with the same underlying principles look at him and feel a very different moral intuition as to how we ought to greet such behavior. What type of immigrant do we seek? These questions strike me as fundamental, but totally lost in the political ferment surrounding immigration.
March 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Serious jurist Sam Alito just pretending that the Court was asked to review the merits of the TRO and not the order to enforce the TRO. Wtf is this nonsense?
March 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM