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+====Courts have heavy burdens now and are on the brink—one big push causes collapse of the judiciary and democracy.==== |
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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,” September 10, 2013, http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/testimony-federal-courts-need-more-judges)//ghs-VA |
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+While the current high level of judicial vacancies partially explains this high per-judge |
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+AND |
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+2013, so as to ensure the continued vitality of our federal courts. |
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+====Qualified immunity was created to PREVENT frivolous litigation. Aff limits that and prompts court clog==== |
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+Mary Ellen Maatman 84 Professor of Law at Delaware Law School; B.A. from Swarthmmore College and a J.D. from University of Pennsylvania Law School, "Harlow v. Fitzgerald: The Lower Courts Implement the New Standard for Qualified Immunity Under Section 1983," University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Volume 132, 1984, GU//MM |
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+In addition to furthering the public interest by facilitating effective¶ government through unhampered decisionmaking |
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+AND |
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+" of such cases that followed Monroe¶ v. Pape.7 5 |
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+====QI prevents frivolous lawsuits==== |
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+John P. Taddei 12 J.D. Northwestern University School of Law, "Beyond Absolute Immunity: Alternative Protections for Prosecutors Against Ulitmate Liability for 1983 Suits," Northwestern University Law Review, Volume 106, Number 4, 2012, GU//MM |
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+The Court itself has acknowledged that qualified immunity is adequate¶ to protect an official |
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+AND |
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+¶ to take a step back from a regime of absolute prosecutorial immunity. |
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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)//ghs-VA |
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+Personal effects: The hidden costs of greater workloads. The hallmark of federal justice |
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+AND |
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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 mass death==== |
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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)//ghs-VA |
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+The structure of shared powers in foreign relations serves to deter the abuse of power |
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+AND |
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+in comparison to those of the American people and their representatives in Congress. |