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+====Court legitimacy is high now- trust is on the brink with lack of abidance to constitutional precedent==== |
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+Gershman 4-8 **~~Jacob Gershman (Jacob Gershman covers law for The Wall Street Journal and is lead writer of the Law Blog. He previously wrote about New York politics for the Journal and the New York Sun.) 4-8-2016, "How Supreme Court Legitimacy is Shaped," WSJ, http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/04/08/how-supreme-court-legitimacy-is-shaped/~~ NB** |
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+GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, in remarks on the Senate floor earlier this week |
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+with rulings doesn’t by itself fuel a perception that the court is politicized. |
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+====SCOTUS already ruled qualified immunity as legal- past 30 years prove==== |
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+Kinports 16 **~~Kinports, Kit. (Professor and Polisher Family Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Penn State Law) 2016. "The Supreme Court's Quiet Expansion of Qualified Immunity"~~ NB** |
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+In its 1982 decision in Harlow v. Fitzgerald, the Supreme Court openly refashioned |
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+sum- mary judgment in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.10 |
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+====Overruling uniquely decimates Court legitimacy. ==== |
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+Kozel 10 ** ~~(Randy J. – Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, "ARTICLE: Stare Decisis as Judicial Doctrine," 67 Wash and Lee L. Rev. 411, 2010, LexisNexis)~~ NB** |
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+A more widely debated example comes from Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey |
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+extraordinarily reluctant to overrule its precedents based on concerns over perceived legitimacy. n307 |
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+====Weakening the court prevents sustainable development- leads to more anthropocentrism. ==== |
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+Stein 05** ~~Stein, New South Wales Court of Appeal former judge, 2005 (Paul Stein, "Why judges are essential to the rule of law and environmental protection", IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 60, online, ldg)~~** |
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+The Johannesburg Principles state: "We emphasize that the fragile state of the global |
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+is, we must not shirk our duty. Pg. 53-54 |
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+====Extinction==== |
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+Barry 13 ** ~~(Glen, "ECOLOGY SCIENCE: Terrestrial Ecosystem Loss and Biosphere Collapse", 2-4, http://forests.org/blog/2013/02/ecology-science-terrestrial-ec.asp, ldg)~~** |
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+Blunt, Biocentric Discussion on Avoiding Global Ecosystem Collapse and Achieving Global Ecological Sustainability Science |
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+that across scales when enough life is lost beyond thresholds, living systems die |