Tournament: Clycone | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cabot Levi Grisham | Judge: idk

Cont 1 is Framework

The starting point of government deliberation has to be the individual and how they relate to the social world around them. Rules only gain their force if they are open to public criticism. This means we need a procedural democracy that transcends the exact content of any moral rule. . Adorno:

Adorno, Theodor. "Education after Auschwitz," Critical Model
Since the possibility of changing the objective—namely societal and political— conditions is
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that associates them with certain mentally ill or psychotic characters, namely schizoids.

Government action is about the process of deliberation not finding an exact rule to follow in every circumstance. Generation of values requires the ability to speak out. . Singer 84

Singer, Joseph William. "The player and the cards: nihilism and legal theory." The Yale Law Journal 94.1 (1984): 1-70.
Moreover, we cannot respond adequately to problems faced in life by generating abstract
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and make us more keenly aware of alternative social arrangements.'85
 

Part 2 – The Police State

Qualified immunity reflects a culture of policing that justifies terrorizing black neighborhoods and lets police know they can get away with anything. Carter '15

Tom Carter – WSWS Legal Correspondent, a lawyer (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/02/24/cart-f24.html). "US Supreme Court Expands Immunity for Killer Cops." Center for Research on Globalization. November 12, 2015. http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-supreme-court-expands-immunity-for-killer-cops/5488366 JJN
When a civil rights case is summarily dismissed by a judge on the grounds of
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mass repression and dictatorship in response to the growth of working class opposition.

Qualified immunity makes questions of civil rights irrelevant. It shuts down democratic debates about which rights we should value and prevents forms of activism that fight for legal recognition. There is zero difference between qualified immunity and absolute immunity. Hassel '99

Diana Hassel - Associate Professor, Roger Williams University School of Law. B.A. 1979, Mount Holyoke College; J.D. 1985, Rutgers, the State University of New JerseyNewark. "Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity." Missouri Law Review. Winter 1999. http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3402andcontext=mlr JJN
IV. THE COST OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY Qualified immunity has not been universally admired.
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us peace, but it keeps from us the tools required for reform.

Excessive force is the worst manifestation of this form of structural violence – 4^th amendment cases get shut down before they even have a chance. Jeffries '13

Jeffries Jr, John C - David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, the University of Virginia. "The Liability Rule for Constitutional Torts." Virginia Law Review (2013): 207-270. 
Finally, special mention must be made of the case of excessive force. The
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another excessive-force case in that jurisdiction with sufficiently similar facts.

Part 3 – advocacy

The Supreme Court of the United States will limit qualified immunity by altering the 'clearly established' element of qualified immunity to be merely whether it was unconstitutional in civil suits claiming a violation of the 4^th amendment due to excessive force. Wright '15

Sam Wright is a public interest lawyer who has spent his career exclusively in nonprofits and government. "Want to Fight Police Misconduct? Reform Qualified Immunity." Above the Law. November 3, 2015. http://abovethelaw.com/2015/11/want-to-fight-police-misconduct-reform-qualified-immunity/?rf=1 JJN
As usual, I've not buried the lede: that something is qualified immunity reform
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show that that conduct's illegality has already been clearly established in the courts?

The AFF changes police behavior – lawsuits are used by departments to create reform and individuals know their behavior will be watched – they don't' even need to win the lawsuits. Schwartz 10

Schwartz, Joanna. "What Police Learn from Lawsuits." Cardozo Law Review, 2010. http://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/default/files/event/265497/media/slspublic/What_Police_Learn_From_Lawsuits.pdf**. SGK
Lawsuits are widely recognized to compensate and deter; this Article shows suits can also
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to create multiple, new, and even redundant sources of information."253

The AFF changes culture – it is a form of social condemnation that validates the claims of the survivor.  Armacost 98

Armacost 98 Barbara Armacost, Vanderbilt Law Review, April, 1998, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=90852, "Qualified Immunity: Ignorance Excused," WP
If constitutional rights are especially valued in comparison with other kinds of rights, it
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in courts but through public reaction to reported allegations of clear constitutional impropriety.