Tournament: x | Round: 1 | Opponent: x | Judge: x
Email: lrichman2019@bwscampus.com

Tournament: x | Round: 1 | Opponent: x | Judge: x
Interpretation: Debaters' disclosure must include a listing of the labels of all positions they have read directly on the wiki page, and may not only post speech docs without a general description of the arguments within. To clarify, you can't just throw up a document on the wiki, if you disclose a warming DA, you must add a listing saying "Warming DA" or similarly descriptive entry title.

Tournament: VBT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harker SPy | Judge: Michael OKrent
Interpretation: The affirmative must allow the negative to read a competing ROB, making responses to the affirmative ROB, and reconceptualize the affirmative standard without punishing the negative with a loss.

Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 2 | Opponent: Palo Alto CF | Judge: Ashan Peiris
Interpretation: If a debater reads an argument or case that uses the word “c-r-i-p-p-l-e”, “c-r-i-p”, or other derivation of the word, they must ask everyone watching or participating in the debate round if they may do so, before their speech. They must also have a trigger warning on their wiki page in reference to the specific position.

Tournament: UPS | Round: 3 | Opponent: Raisbeck Aviation ER | Judge: Eliza Haas
Interpretation: The affirmative must defend post-fiat implementation.

Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 3 | Opponent: BASIS Silicon Valley EK | Judge: Travis Fife
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Interpretation - the aff must defend and can only garner offense from the desirability of the hypothetical enactment of a topical policy enacted by the resolution’s actors.

‘Resolved’ denotes a proposal to be enacted by law.
Words and Phrases 64 (Permanent Edition)
Definition of the ... establish by law”.  

Violation – confirmed in cx – you don’t defend the resolution

Net Benefits:

Limits
They destroy limits by allowing any possible aff
Steinberg and Freeley 13: * David, Lecturer in Communication studies and rhetoric. Advisor to Miami Urban Debate League. Director of Debate at U Miami, Former President of CEDA. And  Austin, attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, JD, Suffolk University, Argumentation and Debate, Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making, 121-4
Debate is a ... the following discussion.

Empiricism is on our side
Preston 3-Thomas Preston, Professor of communications at the University of Missouri-St. Louis Summer 2003, “No-topic debating in Parliamentary Debate: Students and Critic Reactions”
The study involved ... to the Opposition. 

Critical thinking

Anderson 6:  Amanda Anderson 6, prof of English at Johns Hopkins The Way We Argue Now, 25-8
25 Whether such a ... institutions and practices.

Topical fairness requirements are key to effective dialogue—monopolizing strategy and prep makes the discussion one-sided and subverts any meaningful neg role – that link turns the aff
Galloway 7: (Ryan Galloway, Samford Debate Coach, Professor of Communication Studies at Samford, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, Vol. 28, 2007
Debate as a ... of topical advocacy.

Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 3 | Opponent: BASIS Silicon Valley EK | Judge: Travis Fife
Communist Hypothesis Kritik

Late modern society is self-reflexive – our identities are determined by the capitalism – what to buy, who to vote for, what brands are most socially responsible, what energy companies are least polluting – the modern ideal of the autonomous subject is no longer possible vis a vis the market system.
Bluhdorn 06 – (2006, Ingolfur, PhD, Reader in Politics/Political Sociology, University of Bath, “Self-Experience in the Theme Park of Radical Action? Social Movements and Political Articulation in the Late-Modern Condition,” European Journal of Social Theory 9(1): 23–42, google scholar)
The concept of ... exactly this function.

Confronted with this crisis, the modern subject seeks to reconfirm and reconstitute an oppositional identity through the simulation of alternatives to the system – these performances of radical change pacify true dissent and enable the continued management of unsustainability – the impact is environmental destruction, extreme inequality and violent conflict.
Bluhdorn 07 – (May 2007, Ingolfur, PhD, Reader in Politics/Political Sociology, University of Bath, “Self-description, Self-deception, Simulation: A Systems-theoretical Perspective on Contemporary Discourses of Radical Change,” Social Movement Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1–20, May 2007, google scholar)
Yet the established ... of self-referentiality.

The 1ac’s use of hybridity and marginality as subversive cultural praxis fails – enables complicity with capitalism and dehistoricizes material, economic determinants of oppression.
Mitchell 97 – (1997, Katharyne, Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, “Different Diasporas and the Hype of Hybridity”)
In much of ... in this paper.

The alternative is to stop and think communism -- reject capitalistic identity separations and replace them with Communism– breaking free from the political closure of the status quo requires refusing the call to radical action in favor of developing a new, comprehensive understanding of the institutional constraints of the status quo.
Swyngedouw and Wilson 14 (Erik, Professor of Geography @ Manchester U., and Japhy, Lecturer in International Political Economy and Hallsworth Research Fellow @ Manchester U., “There Is No Alternative,” The Post-Political and Its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticisation, Spectres of Radical Politics, pp. 308-310)
The idea of ... is no alternative?

Tournament: UPS | Round: 1 | Opponent: Interlake HS - Bellevue MW | Judge: Jeffrey Richards
Current protections against hate speech are working – on campus harrassment is decreasing nationally now.  Sutton 16  
Sutton 16 Halley Sutton, Report shows crime on campus down across the country, Campus Security Report 13.4 (2016), 9/9/16
A recent report ... offenses and murder.

Removing restrictions on free speech allows hate speech – hate speech IS free speech
Volokh 15 Eugene Volokh,No, There’s No “hate Speech” Exception to the First Amendment, The Washington Post, 5/7/15
I keep hearing ... I know of.) 

Hate speech leads to a genocidal increase in crimes against marginalized groups.  
Greenblatt 15 Jonathan Greenblatt, When Hateful Speech Leads to Hate Crimes: Taking Bigotry Out of the Immigration Debate, Huffington Post, 8/21/15
When police arrived ... the ball rolling.

Racial insults entrench white domination through degrading subjects and positioning the state as a protector of racism.  
Byrne ‘91.  J. Peter Byrne.  1991  Racial Insults and Free Speech Within the University.  Georgetown University Law Center
By now most ... or cultural differences.' 

The aff’s trivialization of hate speech undermines our project against systemic racism and oppression as a whole. EVEN if you grant them their silencing impacts – that silencing is KEY to create a cultural shift.
Watterson 91 (Kim M. Watterson, 'THE POWER OF WORDS: THE POWER OF ADVOCACY CHALLENGING THE POWER OF HATE SPEECH', 1991 by the University of Pittsburgh Law Review; Kim M. Watterson, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 955 University of Pittsburgh Law Review Summer, 1991)
Second, hate speech ... will be strengthened.

Hates speech causes physical harm to its recipients. o/w any of aff’s “marketplace” impacts
Gould ’99 Jon Gould. 1999.  THE TRIUMPH OF HATE SPEECH REGULATION: WHY GENDER WINS BUT RACE LOSES IN AMERICA.  Michigan Journal of Gender and Law
One reason for ... psychosis and suicide.” 30 

It’s try or die for speech restrictions – leaving racism unaddressed will only make things worse, a proactive approach is key to solve.
Garcia 10 (Garcia, Edelmira. "Perpetuating Racism Through The Freedom Of Speech." Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society. Ch. 5. Pg. 79. 2010. Web. December 08, 2016.)
Undoubtedly, there are ... to do so.

Hate speech chills campus behavior – this turns AC impacts.
Tsesis 10(Tsesis, Alexander. "Burning Crosses On Campus: University Hate Speech Codes." Connecticut Law Review 617. 2010. Web. December 05, 2016.)
Allowing students or ... or instigate violence.

Tournament: UPS | Round: 1 | Opponent: Interlake HS - Bellevue MW | Judge: Jeffrey Richards
Counterplan text: Public colleges and universities ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech except for hate speech. Lawrence bracketed is the solvency advocate.

Charles R. Lawrence III, “Crossburning and the Sound of Silence: Antisubordination Theory and the First Amendment,” 1992
But there is ... masters and slaves. 

Hate speech poses a direct threat to the oppressed. Banning it is necessary to promote inclusiveness.
Jared Taylor summarizes Waldron, 12, Why We Should Ban “Hate Speech”, American Renaissance, summarizing Jeremy Waldron, The Harm in Hate Speech, Harvard University Press, 2012, 292 pp., 26.95. 8/24/12
First-Amendment guarantees ... drive out minorities.

Courts check—things like context solves for crowding out speech that’s productive to solve structural violence.
Arthur 11 (Joyce, Founder and Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, a national political pro-choice group, “The Limits of Free Speech,” Sep 21, 2011
A common objection ... that critiques it.

Tournament: UPS | Round: 1 | Opponent: Interlake HS - Bellevue MW | Judge: Jeffrey Richards
Counterplan text: Public colleges and universities ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech except for hate speech. Lawrence bracketed is the solvency advocate.

Charles R. Lawrence III, “Crossburning and the Sound of Silence: Antisubordination Theory and the First Amendment,” 1992
But there is ... masters and slaves. 

Hate speech poses a direct threat to the oppressed. Banning it is necessary to promote inclusiveness.
Jared Taylor summarizes Waldron, 12, Why We Should Ban “Hate Speech”, American Renaissance, summarizing Jeremy Waldron, The Harm in Hate Speech, Harvard University Press, 2012, 292 pp., 26.95. 8/24/12
First-Amendment guarantees ... drive out minorities.

Courts check—things like context solves for crowding out speech that’s productive to solve structural violence.
Arthur 11 (Joyce, Founder and Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, a national political pro-choice group, “The Limits of Free Speech,” Sep 21, 2011
A common objection ... that critiques it.

Tournament: VBT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harker SPy | Judge: Michael OKrent
Their starting point cannot include our concerns. Ideal theory is a tool of exclusion by white academia.
Mills: Mills, Charles Caribbean philosopher from Jamaica. He is known for his work in social and political philosophy, particularly in oppositional political theory as centered on class, gender, and race “Ideal Theory as Ideology” Hypatia, Volume 20 (Number 3). Summer 2005.
Finally, consider the ... the status quo.

There is no outside of identity; the idea of a universal and transcendental psyche/reason is illusory. Their paradigms seek to exclude Black experience and erase the reality of Black sub-personhood.
Charles Mills 98 —John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy—1998 Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), 9-10.
The universalizing pretensions ... thus becomes necessary.

The notion of equality is a fantasy that seduces Black and Brown bodies to reject their reality, destroying their own existence—this notion of equality is a form assimilation by whites, which obscures anti-Black violence and racism.
Curry 08 - (Tommy Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas AandM University “SAVED BY THE BELL: DERRICK BELL’S RACIAL REALISM AS PEDAGOGY” PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES IN EDUCATION – 2008 Vol. 39
Equality, in creating ... new cultural world. 

The alternative is an anti-ethical paradigm - this situates normativity on a focus towards material lived experiences - vote neg to reject the colorblind mindset of the 1AC that only re-entrenches domination.
Dr. Tommy J. Curry 13, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Texas AandM, "In the Fiat of Dreams: The Delusional Allure of Hope, the Reality of Anti-Black Violence and the Demands of the Anti-Ethical", 2013
Anti-ethics; the ... mortal, and un-otherable

DO NOT SEPARATE THEIR ETHIC FROM ITS HITSORY—ETHICS SHOULD BE BASED IN EMPIRICAL REALITY AS OPPOSED TO ABSTRACT IDEALS.
Dr. Tommy J. Curry 13, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Texas AandM, "In the Fiat of Dreams: The Delusional Allure of Hope, the Reality of Anti-Black Violence and the Demands of the Anti-Ethical", 2013.
Despite the rhetorical ... as their own.¶ 

The affs approach to answering the question of “ought” presumes access that the black thinker does not have – The world is framed by white supremacy, and black ethical deliberation is censored in favor of abstract white philosophy.  
Curry ’13, (Curry, Tommy J. doctor in Associate Professor of Philosophy, Affiliated Professor of Africana Studies, Texas A and M University In the Fiat of Dreams: The Delusional Allure of Hope, the Reality of Anti-Black Violence and the Demands of the Anti-Ethical. 2013.)
Ought implies a ... idea of ethics.

The perm is a form of footnoting that ignores the consequences against communities of color – when we strive for equality, it’s never been inclusive of black folk
BAKER 8 distinguished university professor @ Vanderbilt University 2k8 Houston; “Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era” pg.64-65
If the aim ... of course, democracy 

ROB: Critically analyze the 1AC’s framing prior to the consequences of the plan 

They result in misinterpretation of the world and distort communication—the 1AC is rooted in an epistemology of ignorance—critique is a prior question.
Zeus Leonardo 02, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies, Diversity, and Ethnic Issues, University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education, "The Souls of White Folk: critical pedagogy, whiteness studies, and globalization discourse", Race, Ethnicity and Education, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2002.
The fragmenting effects ... sign of sameness.

Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 2 | Opponent: Palo Alto CF | Judge: Ashan Peiris
Method K

 
Part 1: The affirmative is not topical
A. The Cambridge Dictionary defines any:
We use any ... dishwasher. (+ plural noun)

B. Dictionary.com defines free speech as
,‘freedom of speech’,  
the right of ... violence or rebellion, etc.

Part 2: Impact
Debaters need to be held accountable for all aspects of their method – including the decision to not be topical. I am not imposing a rule that you must defend the topic, but critiquing your method for choosing not to do so.
a) Limits
Steinberg and Freeley
Debate is a ... the following discussion.

b) Research Burdens

Two implications

c)Critical thinking

d) Defending the topic is hard because it requires you to admit you could be wrong—that generates competitive respect and dialogue. Voting aff reinforces group polarization and choir preaching.

Part 3: Alt – Reject the affirmative advocacy for being non-topical.

Tournament: Berkeley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake JI | Judge: Rory Jacobson
Revenge Porn Pic

“Public colleges and universities in the United States ought to expand the view of sexual violence violations to include revenge pornography as harassment and restrict it accordingly.” Rennison and Addington 14 is the solvency advocate:
Callie Rennison (associate professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver) and Lynn Addington (associate professor in the Department of Justice, Law and Criminology, School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, DC), “Violence Against College Women: A Review to Identify Limitations in Defining the Problem and Inform Future Research” Trauma, Violence, and Abuse. July 2014. Vol. 15, no. 3. Pgs. 159-169. SF
The current violence … significant emotional harm).

The counterplan competes through mutual exclusivity; the aff defends all constitutionally protected speech and revenge pornography is federally protected under the first amendment.
ACLU v. Arizona gives the best precedent. Harrison 15:
Anne Harrison (Student Writer for the Journal of Gender, Race and Justice), “Revenge Porn: Protected by the Constitution?” The Journal of Gender, Race and Justice. Vol 18. February 2015.

Because the anti-revenge-porn … and historical images.”
Revenge porn is the Internet evolution of stalking and begets real stalking. It is constitutively psychological harassment. Robertson 15:
Hope Robertson (3L student at Campbell Law School), “The Criminalization of Revenge Porn” Campbell Law Observer. July 21, 2015. SF
With the advancement … on the websites.

Revenge Pornography is inherently sexist – there is no debate. Filipovic 13:
Jill Filipovic (Journalist) “’Revenge Porn’ Is About Degrading Women Sexually and Professionally.” The Guardian, 2013. Accessed 11/10/14. SF
Society sees it … and harming them.

Don’t let them say free speech good; discursive objectification of women on college campuses takes away their speech. Turns case. Pinar 12:
William F. Pinar (American educator, curriculum theorist and international studies scholar; has taught at LSU, Colgate, Columbia, and Ohio State), “The Gender of Violence on Campus” Published in Gendered Futures in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives for Change. Edited by Becky Ropers-Huilman. Feb 1, 2012. SUNY Press SF
The culture of … more stupid questions.

Women speech on sexual violence is silenced through a false dualism of private and public spheres. A safe internet is a radical counter public where the violence faced by women can be heard and responded to – leads to larger societal spillover. Salter 13:
Michael Salter (lecturer in criminology at the university of western sydney), “Justice and revenge in online counter-publics: Emerging responses to sexual violence in the age of social media.” July 11, 2013. SAGE Journals. SF
In liberal democracies, … networks and activists.

Tournament: UPS | Round: 3 | Opponent: Raisbeck Aviation ER | Judge: Eliza Haas
Victim Blaming K

The 1ACs intellectualization of free speech to problematize the activism of students ignores the real struggles people of color and other minorities face every day.  By immediately criticizing marginalized people for their tactics, you give an easy out to discard discussion of the issues they face.
Cornett 15 SARAH CORNETT (The editor of the Whitman College student-run weekly newspaper, The Pioneer); Friday, December 04, 2015; “Racism on Campus - Not Free Speech - Is the Real Story: Mainstream Media Are Missing the Mark”
As the clip ... to stop there."

Their complaints of a “liberal bubble” show the real hypocrisy of “progressive writers”, the only time you care about suppression of speech and ignorance of viewpoints is when minorities are protecting themselves from hateful speech, but ignore ongoing suppression of minority speech by the dominant class.  Don’t let them go for solvency when the only people they protect are the powerful.
Wright 2/16 Chris Wright (is a doctoral candidate in U.S. labor history, and the author of Notes of an Underground Humanist and Worker Cooperatives and Revolution: History and Possibilities in the United States);  JUNE 2, 2016; “Liberal Faux-Outrage on Freedom of Speech”
The Kristofs and ... be taken seriously.”

Welcome to Victim Blaming 2.0TM, with included self righteousness and claims of moral superiority! The aff’s invocation of free speech is the new trick to avoid ever discussing concrete material claims of racism.  The alternative is to end the diversion embodied by the 1AC and confront issues of racism and oppression head on instead of abstracting to higher principles like free speech. Free speech good is non-responsive and just links harder into the K, even if free speech is good, your tactics of using it to deflect real world harms is bad.
Cobb 15 Jelani Cobb (Jelani Cobb has been contributing to The New Yorker and newyorker.com since 2012, and became a staff writer in 2015. He writes frequently about race, politics, history, and culture. His most recent book is “The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress.” He’s a professor of journalism at Columbia University. He won the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, for his columns on race, the police, and injustice.) ; November 10, 2015; “RACE AND THE FREE-SPEECH DIVERSION”
Of the many ... any time soon.

Claims of “free speech” are just a right wing power grab – speech has never been free but that doesn’t stop dominant power structures from using it to protect repugnant viewpoints while censoring others at the same time
Jacobs 15 Ron Jacobs; NOVEMBER 16, 2015; “Shove Your Free Speech in Their Face”
Recently, the US ... make it heard.

Tournament: Damus | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker AV | Judge: Adam Bistagne
Court Clog DA

Immunity for government officials is necessary to screen out frivolous litigations
Radley Balko '14 (), 1-30-2014, "7th Circuit pokes a hole in prosecutorial immunity"
A three-judge panel ... dread of retaliation.”

Court clog from new litigation independently destroys the economy.
Fix-Fierro 3, Circuit Master Judge, 3 (Hector, Courts, Justice, and Efficiency: A Social Justice Legal Study of Economic Rationality in Adjudication, p. 123)
Regarding the second ... domestic) economic actors.

An economic collapse causes a global nuclear war.  
Aaron Friedberg and Gabriel Schoenfeld, 2008 (prof. of politics @ Princeton and Senior editor of the Wall Street Journal) WALL STREET JOURNAL.  Oct. 21, 2008.  Retrieved May 17, 2014
Then there are ... with external adventures.

Tournament: Damus | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker AV | Judge: Adam Bistagne
Crime DA

Crime is at an all time law, and has been steadily falling.
Brook and Roeder ’15 Lauren-Brook Eisen, Olivery Roerder; “America’s Faulty Perception of Crime Rates;” Brennan Center for Justice at New York Univeristy School of Law; March 16, 2015
Today, the national ... decreased alcohol consumption.

Threat of litigation causes paralyzed police action.
Homer C. Hawkins (Associate Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University) and Catherine Montsinger (Assistant Professor, Criminology, Johnson C. Smith University). “Po- lice and Civil Liability: A Practical Guide to Avoiding Litigation.” Law Enforcement Executive Fo- rum • 2007 • 7(1).
Litigaphobia, also referred ... litigation may present.

Threat of litigation is high and harms police morale.
Rosen ‘05 Michael M. Rosen (Attorney in San Diego at Fish and Richardson PC, an intellectual property law firm; JD, Harvard Law). “A Qualified Defense: In Support of the Doctrine of Qualified Immunity in Excessive Force Cases, With Some Suggestions for its Improvement.” 35 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. (2005).
This effect dovetails ... of dangerous suspects.

Litigation prevents police from upholding the law.
Boutwell ‘79 Paul Boutwell (Special Agent, Legal Counsel Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation). “Qual- ified Immunity of Law Enforcement Officiais.” FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. January 1979.
There is no ... by nothing less.

Studies show police perceive litigation as hindering job performance
Ferdik ‘13 Frank V. Ferdik (Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice; University of South Carolina). “Perception is Reality: A Qualitative Approach to Understanding Police Officer Views on Civil Liability.” Working Paper No 49, August 2013.
Civil litigation against ... perform their function.

Wills and Quail ’06 John Wills,Jeff Quail; “The Emerging Trend of Criminal Complacency;” Officer.com; November 6, 2006
"Litigaphobia," the irrational ... in their behavior. 

Crime inherently causes poverty- multiple levels to solve for.
Lippman, ‘91.  (Theo, author of Spiro Agnew’s America and Editor at the Baltimore Sun. March 30, 1991.) DOA: 7/6/15. BALTIMORE SUN. “Poverty Doesn’t cause crime. Crime Causes Poverty.”
POVERTY DOESN'T cause ... or replacing property."

Poverty is the deadliest form of structural violence – it is equivalent to an ongoing nuclear war.
Gilligan, 96’ James, Former Director of Mental Health for the Massachusetts Prison System, Violence, p.  JW
In other words ... throughout the world.

Tournament: Damus | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake JN | Judge: Panny Shan
Disarm the Police

Counterplan text: The United States ought to disarm the police.

Solves the aff

Berlatsky 16:  Noah Berlatsky “The case for disarming America’s police force” January 27, 2016.
“Black people have ... with Michael Brown.”

Spills over to all other aspects of police force – guns enable a policing philosophy built on violence.
Berlatsky 2:  Noah Berlatsky “The case for disarming America’s police force” January 27, 2016.
Guns aren’t just ... a choke hold.

Tournament: Damus | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker AV | Judge: Adam Bistagne
Counterplan Text: The United States ought to enforce the VCCLEA to implement widespread police reforms, ban racial profiling, close loopholes, and provide incentive grants.

Lawson and Henderson 07 Karen McGill Lawson, President and CEO, LCCREF and Wade Henderson, Counselor, LCCREF; A report from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund, September 2007. “Prosecute Police Misconduct and Hate Crimes”
In 1994, Congress ... form of discrimination.

Tournament: Damus | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake JN | Judge: Panny Shan
Legal Realism K

The rule of law is a myth. The law is not neutral but inherently political; the AC’s acceptance of the rule of law makes them complicit in the state’s oppression.
Hasnas 95
John Hasnas (associate professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University). “The Myth of the Rule of Law.” Wisconsin Law Review. 1995.
In his novel ... rule of law.

Objectivity within the law is impossible; the idea that we can ever reach a sound conclusion based on the law alone is wishful thinking
Hasnas 95
John Hasnas (associate professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University). “The Myth of the Rule of Law.” Wisconsin Law Review. 1995.
What Professor Kingsfield ... consider your responses.

Consensus of legal opinion doesn’t prove objectivity but instead shows how conservative and ideologically narrow the typical judge is; accepting the “stability” of the rule of law makes radical change impossible
Hasnas 95
John Hasnas (associate professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University). “The Myth of the Rule of Law.” Wisconsin Law Review. 1995.
I have been ... rule of law.

The state wants you to believe in the so-called “rule of law” so that it can ensure its authority is unquestioned—this props up an oppressive power structure where state violence is conducted in the name of “impartial application of the law”
Hasnas 95
John Hasnas (associate professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University). “The Myth of the Rule of Law.” Wisconsin Law Review. 1995.
IX. It is worth ... to the state.

Even if we could have some definitive, consistent body of rules that are impartially applied, why should we? The alt is to embracing law’s indeterminacy—it’s the only way to ensure justice and fairness.
Hasnas 95
John Hasnas (associate professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University). “The Myth of the Rule of Law.” Wisconsin Law Review. 1995.
Let us assume ... system of justice.

Ignoring the rule of law’s violent underside fuels Western imperialism and the violence that comes with it
Dossa 99
Shiraz, Department of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, “Liberal Legalism: Law, Culture and Identity,” The European Legacy, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 73-87,1
Law's imperial reach, ... the native Other.

Underview

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake JN | Judge: Joseph Barquin
see open source

Tournament: Meadows | Round: 5 | Opponent: Marlborough GK | Judge: John Scoggin
Interp: The aff must defend all commercial and state uses of nuclear power. To clarify, the aff can still specify to a country but cannot only defend ending part of that country’s nuclear activity.

1. Ground
   2. Predictability

Tournament: Voices | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lynbrook CW | Judge: John Overing
Electricity prices are on the decline but extremely volatile – maintaining stable prices is key
Lincoln 16 (Mileka, reporter, “Electric bills down about 30 thanks to low gas prices,” January 21, 2016)
"Last year, demand...future," said Bonham. 

The plan causes oil prices to spike
Tverberg 11 (Gail E, writer @ Oil Prices, “What The End Of Nuclear Power Would Actually Mean For The World,” March 16, 2011)
Rolling blackouts would...used for generation.

Increased electricity prices collapses the steel industry
VELJ 2K (Villanova Environmental Law Journal, 11 Vill. Envtl. L.J. 161, “STEEL INDUSTRY WATCH OUT! THE KYOTO PROTOCOL IS LURKING”)
In addition to...with steel components.

Buyer 7 (Steve, Before the International Trade Commission, Member of the House of Representatives, Regarding the five-year sunset review on Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from Argentina, China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Romania, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and Ukraine, 7-31-7, (Inv. Nos. 701-TA-404-408 and 731-TA-898-908)
A robust steel...as a nation.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: x | Judge: x
A. Uniqueness - Space exploration is quickly expanding and will continue to grow in the coming years - Gray (Patrick Gray, "A growing industry of exploration", May 18, 2015)
Space exploration in...is the time.

B. Link - Nuclear propulsion technology is key to space exploration. Bromley ("Nuclear Propulsion: Getting More Miles Per Gallon" Blair Bromley, 2000 Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Deep River Engineering Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering Doctor of Philosophy, Nuclear Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 9.55)
Nuclear propulsion systems...October 3, 1907

C. Impact - One hundred trillion humans are lost every second of delayed colonization Bostrom (Bostrom, Professor of Philosophy at Yale and Oxford, 2K4 (Nick, “Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development,”)
"As I write...of our supercluster.6"

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: San Marino KWu | Judge: Kris Kaya
Interp: Aff must not have only pre-fiat offense.