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+===1) Creates a Ruse of Solvency (this also serves as terminal defense to the aff)=== |
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+====The aff's use of civil suits focuses on punishing individual perpetrators of violence – this obscures the endemic violence of police forces==== |
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+**Feldman 15 **~~(Leonard Feldman, Hunter College, CUNY) "Police Violence and the Legal Temporalities of Immunity"~~ LADI |
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+On the same day the Department of Justice declined to prosecute Ferguson Missouri Officer Darren |
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+practice" investigation through consent agreements that relied on "experimentalist regulation."61 |
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+====The aff assumes the police violence can be addressed by bringing it under the control of law – in fact, the law is the apparatus legitimating police violence.==== |
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+Simon **Behrman 11** ~~(Simon Behrman, ) Police killings and the law – International Socialism, 1-4-2011~~ LADI |
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+Ever since the late 1970s some on the left have declared that Britain is either |
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+, even at the extreme end involving the deliberate killing of innocent people. |
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+===2) Reform Discourse Grants Legitimacy=== |
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+====The legal system is fundamentally flawed. Shortcomings of laws cannot be solved with minor adjustments—they grant legitimacy to the system. Gordon '87:==== |
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+Robert W. Gordon, Professor of Law at Stanford University. "Unfreezing Legal Reality: Critical Approaches to Law", Florida State University Law Review (15 Fla. St. U.L. Rev. 195), 1987. |
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+Now a central tenet of CLS work has been that the ordinary discourses of law |
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+taking collective action against evil without suffering the greater evil of despotic power. |
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+==Impact== |
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+====Legislative solutions mask the structural issues and enable victim-blaming==== |
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+**Delgado 91** (Richard, Charles Inglis Thomson Professor of Law, University of Colorado. J.D. 1974, University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), "Norms and Normal Science: Toward a Critique of Normativity in Legal Thought", University of Pennsylvania Law Review (1991), pp. 933-962, Accessed 7/7/15)//LD |
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+Ordinary life is full of similar examples in which the mere pronouncement of something as |
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+malpractice). More instances of this sort are discussed in the next section. |
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+====Legal reforms hurt any progress– starting from the perspective of legal solutions forecloses the political imaginary and hampers radical solutions—turns the aff Kandaswamy '12==== |
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+**Kandaswamy 12 (Priya Kandaswamy; Associate Professor Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; "THE OBLIGATIONS OF FREEDOM AND THE LIMITS OF LEGAL EQUALITY" SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW Vol. 41, pg 265, 1/21/2012)** |
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+Despite a vast array of critiques that have elucidated the ways in which the U |
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+could look like and locate legal interventions in relation to this broader vision. |
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+==Alt== |
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+====Vote negative as to subvert the law – we ought to study the law not to use it, but to free humanity from it==== |
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+**De Boever, 2006** (Arne De Boever, Professor of American Studies at the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, Overhearing Bartleby: Agamben, Melville, and Inoperative Power, Parrhesia Number 1, 2006, 142-162) |
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+According to Agamben, we should aim to study the law in order to deactivate |
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+, show how the thought of inoperativity can also be a political practice. |