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+====Judiciary is intact now but we're on the brink—courts are clogged at historic levels.==== |
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+**Bannon '13** (Alicia Bannon serves as counsel for the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, where her work focuses on judicial selection and promoting fair and impartial courts. Ms. Bannon also previously served as a Liman Fellow and Counsel in the Brennan Center's Justice Program. J.D. from Yale Law School in 2007, where she was a Comments Editor of the Yale Law Journal. "Testimony: More Judges Needed in Federal Courts," Brennan Center, 9/13, http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/testimony-federal-courts-need-more-judges) OS |
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+While the current high level of judicial vacancies partially explains this high per-judge |
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+2013, so as to ensure the continued vitality of our federal courts. |
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+====Qualified immunity is key to solve overburdened federal courts.==== |
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+**Putnam and Ferris '92** (Charles T., Senior Assistant Attorney General, New Hampshire and another Charles T., JD, Franklin Pierce Law Center, "Defending a Maligned Defense: The Policy Bases of the Qualified Immunity Defense in Actions Under 42 USC 1983," Bridgeport Law Review, Vol. 12, 1992) OS |
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+National resources are obviously scarce, yet increasing numbers of section 1983 actions are being |
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+thus an important safety measure for both the courts and defendants facing suit. |
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+====Federal court clog causes collapses the federal judiciary – overburdens dockets, expansion can't keep pace.==== |
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+**Oakley '96 **(John B. Oakley, Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus US Davis School of Law, 1996 The Myth of Cost-Free Jurisdictional Reallocation) |
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+Personal effects: The hidden costs of greater workloads. The hallmark of federal justice |
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+would raise the most serious questions of the future course of the nation. |
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+====Separation of power solves unaccountable decisions to go to war – causes extinction.==== |
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+**Adler '96** (David, professor of political science at Idaho State, The Constitution and Conduct of American Foreign Policy, p. 23-25) |
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+The structure of shared powers in foreign relations serves to deter the abuse of power |
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+in comparison to those of the American people and their representatives in Congress. |