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+====US Hegemony high now, but not inevitable. Kagan 12,==== |
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+**(Robert, 1-11-12, The New Republic, "Not Fade Away: The Myth of Decline," http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/99521/america-world-power-declinism?passthru=ZDkyNzQzZTk3YWY3YzE0OWM5MGRiZmIwNGQwNDBiZmIandutm_source=Editors+and+Bloggersandutm_campaign=cbaee91d9d-Edit_and_Blogsandutm_medium=email, accessed 7-6-12, CNM)** |
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+America included, declared that never in history had there been such a great " |
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+rest," and Kennedy was discoursing again upon the inevitability of American decline. |
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+====Federal court caseload is low now and declining, but could still increase if given the push. Roeder 16==== |
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+**MAY 17, 2016 AT 9:00 AM "The Supreme Court's Caseload Is On Track To Be The Lightest In 70 Years" By Oliver Roeder. LHP MS** |
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+In one sense, Monday was a noisy news day at the Supreme Court. |
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+, on average. Thus far this term, they've granted just 12. |
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+====The Aff floods federal courts with massive amounts of constitutional rights claims, many completely invalid. Noll 08,==== |
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+**Noll, David L. "Qualified Immunity in Limbo: Rights, Procedure, and the Social Costs of Damages Litigation Against Public Officials." NYUL Rev. 83 (2008)** |
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+In the context of ordinary civil litigation between two private parties, the total ( |
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+process,54 a more significant and workaday risk is that courts will uninten |
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+====Qualified Immunity is key to prevent frivolous litigation that clogs federal courts. Taddei 12,==== |
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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** |
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+The Court itself has acknowledged that qualified immunity is adequate to protect an official from |
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+willing to take a step back from a regime of absolute prosecutorial immunity. |
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+====Federal court clog collapses the federal judiciary, destroying court legitimacy – overburdens their dockets and expansion can't keep pace. Oakley 96,==== |
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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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+, in the long run it will cause the present system to collapse. |
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+====Supreme Court legitimacy key to US heg. **Knowles 09** ==== |
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+**(Robert Knowles, professor at New York University Public Law, American Hegemony and the Foreign Affairs Constitution, 41 Ariz. St. L.J. 87 2009)** |
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+This Article offers a new model for assessing appropriate judicial deference in foreign affairs |
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+and explains why it could augur increased judicial involvement in foreign affairs. |
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+====Hegemony solve great power war. **Ward 14** ==== |
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+**(Alex Ward, defense policy and strategy specialist, Only US Can Prevent Great Power War, The Diplomat, August 22, 2014, http://thediplomat.com/2014/08/only-us-can-prevent-great-power-war/)** |
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+But Gilpin's preconditions shouldn't be misconstrued as predictive or fatalistic. Indeed, the United |
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+the chance of a great power war cannot be dismissed, however remote. |
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+====The next great power war will cause human extinction. Dyer 04,==== |
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+**Gwynne Dyer December 30, 2004 Toronto Star "The End of War Our Task Over the Next Few Years is to Transform the World of Independent States into a Genuine Global Village" http://www.commondre...s04/1230-05.htm** |
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+War is deeply embedded in our history and our culture, probably since before we |
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+the potential certainly exists for a major die-back of human population. |