Praxis1Oct 22, 2025

“Over the years, the Supreme Court has treated the 10th Amendment like the magician’s hat — sometimes pulling robust state powers from its depths, other times finding it empty.” – Prof. Andrea Katz

Our amici suite translates that tension into systems-health terms: how the Constitution regulates its own reflexes.
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Cook opened the Canon. It diagnosed the federal system’s reflexes — how law and procedure act as the body’s immune memory. Unchecked reaction breeds instability; disciplined response restores balance.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES_________________ | Notion

No. 25-312_________________ COOK, Petitioner,v.UNITED STATES, Respondent._________________ BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAEPRAXIS FOUNDRYIN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENT_________________ [Term], 2025_________________ [Counsel of Record Name]Counsel of Record[Law Firm or Clinic][Street Address][City, State ZIP][Phone][Email] Counsel for Amicus Curiae TABLE OF CONTENTS INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE .................................................................................. 1 SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT ......................................................................................... 3 SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT — COOK v. UNITED STATES ............................................. 6 ARGUMENT .................................................................................................................. 9 I. REMOVAL POWER AS A CONSTITUTIONAL REFLEX — THE BODY TEACHING ITSELF TO HEAL .............................................................................................. 10

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Hecox v. Little (Balance)
Hecox translated Title IX conflicts into constitutional homeostasis: the Court as therapist balancing energy (equal protection) with discipline (due process). Care, not compulsion, sustains equilibrium. #ConstitutionalPhysiology #SCOTUS #Amicus
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Nos. 24-751 and 24-752 In the Supreme Court of the United States ───────────── | Notion

── LINDSAY HECOX, et al.,   Respondents, v. RYAN LITTLE, et al.,   Petitioners. ─────────────── On Writs of Certiorari to the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Fourth Circuits ─────────────── BRIEF OF Richard Tabor, M.A., CITIZEN ADVOCATE, AS AMICUS CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS ─────────────── Richard Tabor, M.A.Citizen Advocate Farmington Hills, MI [email protected] 31, 2025 ─────────────── Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 37.6, no counsel for a party authored this brief in whole or in part, and no person other than amicus curiae made any monetary contribution to its preparation or submission. TABLE OF CONTENTS Interest of Amicus Curiae ..................................................... 1 Summary of Argument ........................................................... 2 Argument ....................................................................... 4 I. EQUAL PROTECTION: FACT AND FIT .........................

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Chiles v. Salazar (Integration)
Salazar reframed state–federal friction as coordination, not conquest. The 10th Amendment isn’t a magician’s hat — it’s connective tissue linking local vitality to national coherence.
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Interest of Amicus Curiae | Notion

Amicus Praxis Foundry is a nonpartisan research and advocacy initiative dedicated to strengthening constitutional maturity through empirically informed policymaking. Its work focuses on how the State’s regulatory power can evolve in harmony with scientific understanding and human dignity.The Foundry operates as a network of independent “Foundries,” each examining a different facet of constitutional life—from legislative accountability to public health, educational equity, and human rights. In this capacity, the Foundry has studied how governments translate empirical evidence of harm into lawful, narrowly tailored regulation—particularly in domains where professional conduct intersects with speech, science, and identity.The present case, Chiles v. Salazar, lies at that intersection. It asks whether a State may protect minors from practices that contemporary medical and behavioral science have identified as harmful. The Foundry submits this brief to assist the Court in situating that que

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Slaughter v. Trump (Therapy)
Slaughter examined emergency power as systemic inflammation. The cure is not excision but calibration — restoring feedback loops that let the body politic heal without amputation. #SCOTUS #Amicus

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INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE | Notion

Praxis Foundry is an independent civic research initiative dedicated to translating empirical and doctrinal signals into constitutional coherence. It operates as a neural translator, converting public and institutional feedback into reasoned analysis for the Court's consideration. The Foundry submits this brief in support of Respondents to assist in recognizing the constitutional balance preserved by cause-based removal limits, drawing from precedent and data without partisan alignment. SUMMARY OF ARGUMENTThe Constitution functions as a self-regulating system: perception through the people, response through law, and integration through judicial reason. When exercised without cause or process, the removal power disrupts that equilibrium—an overactive reflex that harms the very structures it exists to protect. The Respondents’ position restores balance by requiring verifiable grounds and minimal safeguards, consistent with nearly a century of precedent and measurable indicators of govern

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Wilcox v. United States (Homeostasis)
Wilcox applied the reflex–homeostasis model to removal power: cause-based process as constitutional hygiene. It prevents political reflex from attacking the system’s own stabilizers. #SCOTUS #Amicus

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SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT | Notion

The Constitution functions as a self-regulating system that requires continuous maintenance to preserve its internal equilibrium, or homeostasis—a design Madison described as “ambition counteracting ambition.” The Federalist No. 51 (1788). When multi-member commissions—the stabilizing organs of governance—are subjected to impulsive or politically motivated removal, the system sustains an acute injury. Such action acts as a disruptive reflex, producing measurable inflammation: operational paralysis, policy whiplash, and a collapse in public confidence. Unfettered removal power, by treating these independent bodies as mere instruments of executive will, triggers an auto-immune reaction—attacking the very stabilizers that keep the constitutional body functional. In this emergency posture, the Court’s role is therapeutic: to apply constitutional self-care by defining and reaffirming the process-driven limits that restore equilibrium without disabling lawful executive energy.The doctrinal t

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Together, these five artifacts form a living atlas of constitutional self-care. They show how federalism, rights, and restraint coexist when the system remembers to diagnose before it acts. #SCOTUS #10thAmendment #Amicus
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