Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Neenah MA | Judge: Jeff Joseph
PLAN: The USG will limit qualified immunity by altering the ‘clearly established’ element of qualified immunity

DoJ can make them have consent decree
Domanick
Joe Domanick is associate director of the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay and West Coast Bureau Chief of The Crime Report.
http://thecrimereport.org/2014/07/15/2014-07-police-reforms-best-tool-a-federal-consent-decree/
Since the law came into effect 20 years ago...Seattle, Albuquerque, NM and Newark, NJ.

Part 1 – Framework
I value morality 

Moral law is centered on agents of morality therefore no justification can be valid if it allows for degrading conditions.
James Rachels 86’, American philosopher who specialized in ethics and animal rights, Kantian Theory: The Idea of Human Dignity The Elements of Moral Philosophy, pp. 114-17,122-23., http://public.callutheran.edu/~chenxi/phil345_022.pdf
Second, and even more important, humans...not comparable to the value of anything else.

Thus the criterion is respecting human worth.

ROB – vote for the debater that best supports a method of liberation.

Part 2 – WAR CITY

Qualified immunity justifies terrorizing black neighborhoods. Essentially, police know can get away with anything, and are aware of that. We have to remember; police have to listen to the Federal Government.
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
Over recent decades, the doctrine has been stretched...response to the growth of working class opposition.

Qualified immunity’s focus on technicalities DISGUISES institutional racism and makes civil rights litigation about INDIVIDUAL CASES instead of structural problems and encourages acceptance of the status quo—we have to break down the illusion that our CJS allows for redress
Hassel
Diana Hassel 99, Associate Professor, Roger Williams University School of Law, “Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity,” Missouri Law Review Vol. 64, 1999.
The problem with qualified immunity is...should be protected and how.

The vagueness of what is reasonability confuses officers to not know the bright line of excessive force. Think of 4th amendment violations, this allows for police officers to be violent (and protected) in their dealings with the public.
Alpert and Smith ’94:
Alpert and Smith, 1994 ( Geoffrey P. Alpert William C. Smith. Professors at University of South Carolina. How Reasonable Is the Reasonable Man: Police and Excessive Force. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Volume 85 Issue 2 Fall. http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6818andcontext=jclc)
The Commission Report discussed the need for scrutiny...review these reports at all.

Part 3 – Solvency
Current QI doctrine and the "clearly established" prong means officers are protected when they fail to act in responding to domestic violence cases. 4th amendment violations 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...been clearly established in the courts?

The plan fosters cooperation, which operates as a key check against police departments.
Stefan ‘16
Lindsey de Stefan - J.D. Candidate, 2017, Seton Hall University School of Law; B.A., Ramapo College of New Jersey. ““No Man Is Above the Law and No Man Is Below It:” How Qualified Immunity Reform Could Create Accountability and Curb Widespread Police Misconduct.” The date is claimed to be 2017… but that’s impossible. So it says it has had 360 downloads since July 26, 2016 which is when the article is most likely to have been assumed to be released on the website. Stetan Hall Law. http://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1861andcontext=student_scholarship JJN
VI. Amending Qualified...citizen police relationship.

The plan solves by eliminating uncertainty about what is "clearly established" by publishing opinions that clarify QI for police officers and also beginning to hear cases challenging immunity granted by lower courts. This is key to increasing accountability and serves as an immediate starting point for future reforms
Oliver 15
Oliver, Wesley. "Prohibition’s Lingering Shadow: Under-Regulation of Official Uses of Force." Http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4165andcontext=mlr. 2015.
Unnecessary police killings may be deterred...most investigative techniques

Underview

Beyond the plan-text, our aff forces a confrontation with invisibilized colonialism and the rhetorical strategies that prop up system of domination.
If the AC is a criticism of Western Thought, and there’s a Western Construct brought up, that means that the criticism of this construct is not inconsistent with the AFF (i.e. I do that, and I am the prerequisite). Even if race is key to my opponent’s argument, it’s not a reason why the AFF is bad.

Tournament: Greenhill Fall Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Winston Churchill BR | Judge: Adegoke Fakorede
Adv.1
Majority of Countries that have Nuclear Power are Western Countries
International Atomic Energy Agency ‘16
Nuclear Power Reactors in the World. 36th ed. S.l.: Intl Atomic Energy Agency, 2016. Print. No.2.
The United States leads...9 under construction
The squo policy on Nuclear Power is the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The Eurocentric nature of neorealist and liberal approaches to nuclear proliferation perpetuate logics of colonial violence and inequity. This is a critical analysis through postcolonial paradigms.
Chung 14
Alex - graduated in 2013 with MA in International Relations from the University of New South Wales. He is currently under supervision of Prof John Rees @ University of Notre Dame Australia. “Postcolonial Perspectives on Nuclear Non-Proliferation” Conference Paper for the ISAC-ISSS Joint Annual Conference http://web.isanet.org/Web/Conferences/ISSS20Austin202014/Archive/253053b8-52cd-4251-8a5d-1dd0163cb460.pdf
Resistance to Northern domination...
AND
...the Islamic world, would be enormously dangerous.”
Denuclearization is a colonial imposition by Western states, asserting that all other countries are irrational and dangerous
Biswas 14
Biswas, Shampa. Prof of PoliSci @ Whitman, Nuclear Desire: Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order. Minneapolis, US: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2014. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 8 August 2016.
How does this international...
AND
...who may be damaged from those pursuits?
Adv. 2 Empowerment
The global move to nuclear power puts developing countries at risk – there’s a double standard where only developed nations have the best safety standards
Schneider et al 11
Mycle – consultant and project coordinator, Antony Frogatt – consultant, Steve Thomas – prof of energy policy @ Greenwich University, “Nuclear Power in a Post-Fukushima World 25 Years After the Chernobyl Accident” World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2010-11, http://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/2011MSC-WorldNuclearReport-V3.pdf
The UAE project also raises...
AND
...designs may well prove short-lived.
Non-proliferation is enlightenment rationality, so it’s no surprise that non-nuclear states are told to denuclearize while Western states get to keep their arsenals
Biswas 14
Biswas, Shampa. Prof of PoliSci @ Whitman, Nuclear Desire: Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order. Minneapolis, US: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2014. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 8 August 2016.
In one of the most celebratory defenses...
AND
...continues to be central in all of Walker’s writings.
Nuclear Programs are what Eastern Countries need to get to the bargaining table, or developing countries to develop
Pollack ‘06
Pollack, Kenneth M., “Bringing Iran to the Bargaining Table,” The Brookings Institution. November 2006.
KENNETH M. POLLACK is senior and director of research the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. His recent book is The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America (Random House, 2005).
Living with Enemies
Setting aside the question...
AND
...of the state in question.
Framework
The role of the ballot is to resist all forms of structural domination.

1. Epistemology: Ethical theorizing comes from the interaction of different ideas, but that can only occur meaningfully if we fix conditions that exclude particular voices.
   Medina:
   José Medina Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt "Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance: Counter-Memory, Epistemic Friction, and Guerrilla Pluralism", Foucault Studies No. 12 (2011), 9-35.
   Foucault invites us to pay attention to...
   AND
   ...hegemonic practices have foreclosed.
   Structural violence limits whom they apply to on the basis of unjustifiable conceptual categories. We need to create systems and focus on strats to stop that and make our ethical categorizing meaningful.
   Winter and Leighton ‘99
   Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter: Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and ustice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice) (Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century. Pg 4-5)
   Finally, to recognize the operation...
   AND
   ...also be used to empower citizens to reduce it.