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+===Court Clog DA=== |
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+====Courts are overworked in the squo—judges are at the edge and one big push collapses the judiciary.==== |
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+**Gersham 15** Jacob Gershman "Federal Judge Says His Overworked Colleagues Bench Close to Burnout" Wall Street Journal November 12^^th^^ 2015 |
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+Judges in federal trial courts have for some time expressed concern about the ever- |
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+growing ones), but efforts to hire more judges have met political resistance. |
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+====Qualified immunity is a large part of case selection – deters lawyers from taking certain cases. ==== |
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+**Reinert 11**, Alexander. "Does Qualified Immunity Matter?." University of St. Thomas Law Journal Vol 8 Issue 3. 2011. Web. October 06, 2016. http://ir.stthomas.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1261andcontext=ustlj. |
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+The data are limited and anecdotal in nature, but assuming these results are representative |
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+the plaintiff's attorney thinks that the qualified immunity defense will ultimately be rejected. |
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+====Standards set by the court under QI make it easier to dismiss friv litigation==== |
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+**Cotrell 94**, Eric. "Civil Rights Plaintiffs, Clogged Courts, And The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: The Supreme Court." North Carolina Law Review Volume 74 Number 4. April 01, 1994. Web. October 06, 2016. http://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3547andcontext=nclr. |
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+Although Leatherman\'s ban on heightened standards may be consistent with the Court\ |
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+AND |
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+frivolous civil rights suits-contrary to an overly broad interpretation of Leatherman. |
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+====Court clog collapses the federal judiciary — overburdens dockets, expansion can't keep pace==== |
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+**Oakley 96** (John, Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of California Davis, "The Myth of Cost-Free Jurisdictional Reallocation," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 543, p. 52—63, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1048447 |
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+Personal effects: The hidden costs of greater workloads. The hallmark of federal justice |
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+jurisdiction 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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+AND |
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+values in comparison to those of the American people and their representatives in Congress |
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+====Moral uncertainty means we should prevent extinction ==== |
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+**Bostrom 12** ~~Nick Bostrom. Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School University of Oxford. "Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority." Global Policy (2012)~~ |
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+These reflections on moral uncertainty suggest an alternative, complementary way of looking at existential |
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+of value. To do this, we must prevent any existential catastrophe. |