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Court Clog DA
Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lakeville South KR | Judge: Kate Hamm Courts are being overworked at historically high levels now. Further retrials would only further harm courts Eduah and Singh 15’ “Americans Pay a High Price for Judicial Obstruction” Anisha Singh and Pete Haviland-Eduah, Singh is with the Center for American Progress, Haviland-Eduah is a masters candidate at the Gerald R. Ford School for Public Policy at the University of Michigan.) Today, more than 80 current...start by filling these vacancies now.
Qualified Immunity was created to prevent frivolous litigation. Limitation causes them to go to court. Maatman 84’ "Harlow v. Fitzgerald: The Lower Courts Implement the New Standard for Qualified Immunity Under Section 1983," University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Mary Ellen Maatman 84 Professor of Law at Delaware Law School; B.A. from Swarthmmore College and a J.D. from University of Pennsylvania Law School, In addition to furthering the...followed Monroe v. Pape.
Court clog kills the economy Post 11 (Ashely; InsideCounsel as managing editor ,"Frivolous lawsuits clogging U.S. courts, stalling economic growth", www.insidecounsel.com/2011/07/22/frivolous-lawsuits-clogging-us-courts-stalling-eco?page=1-5, July 22, 2011) Americans’ litigiousness and thirst for...benefits to employees.
Leads to mass war Tilford 8, analyst with the Air Force and the Army (Earl, Ph.D. in history from George Washington University, analyst with the Air Force and Army, “Critical mass: economic leadership or dictatorship”, Cedartown Standard, lexis) If the American economy...point very quickly.
11/20/16
Crime DA
Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lakeville South KR | Judge: Kate Hamm Qualified immunity reduces the risk of police officers, allowing them to perform their job to the best of their ability without worrying about being sued. Schott ’12 Richard G. Schott, J.D., 2012, "Qualified Immunity: How It Protects Law Enforcement Officers," FBI, https://leb.fbi.gov/2012/september/qualified-immunity-how-it-protects-law-enforcement-officers Law enforcement...knowingly violate the law.”
Eliminating qualified immunity will make officers afraid to do their jobs. Chen, '94 (Alan K. Assistant Professor, University of Denver College of Law. B.A., 1982, Case Western Reserve University, J.D., 1985, Stanford Law School "THE BURDENS OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY: SUMMARYJUDGMENT AND THE ROLE OF FACTS IN CONSTITUTIONAL TORT LAW" American University Law Review. http://www.americanuniversitylawreview.org/pdfs/47/47-1/chen.pdf) Both Congress and the Supreme...officials are not liable.
The aff creates a culture of fear for police officers, making them less likely to police. 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). http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/ggulrev/vol35/iss2/2 This effect dovetails...of dangerous suspects.
Tournament: Blake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Scarsdale | Judge: Chris Theis Plan Text: Public Colleges and Universities in the United States shall not restrict any constitutionally protected speech, except for hate speech.
Banning hate speech protects the educational environment and those that would be affected. McConnell ‘12 Reed E. McConnell, 4-18-2012, "Why Harvard's Hate Speech Policies Are Necessary," The Harvard Crimson, http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/4/18/hate-speech-libertarians/ But there is...worthy of protest.
Free speech is not inherently valuable if the word has no valuable thought. Words have power to impinge on someone’s freedom from fear. Hate speech needs regulation. McConnell 12’ “Why Harvard's Hate Speech Policies Are Necessary” Reed E. McConnell ’15 is an editorial comper in Greenough Hall. Harvard Graduate The most common argument... worthy of protest. Hate Speech causes material violence for bodies marked as inferior. Singh and Singh 12’ “The Rise of Hate Crimes Can Be Tied Directly to Hateful Speech” Hansdeep Singh is the Co-Founder and Director of Legal Programs for the International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination (ICAAD). His experiences at Human Rights Watch and the Criminal Tribunals of Rwanda and Yugoslavia have made him a forceful advocate in identifying and addressing structural discrimination globally as a means of preventing violence against minority or vulnerable communities. He holds a L.L.M. in International Law and Justice from Fordham University School of Law and a Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law. Simran Jeet Singh is a scholar and activist who writes primarily on culture and religion. He has contributed regularly to a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Huffington Post. He has earned degrees from three universities—Harvard, Columbia, and Trinity—and he is currently completing his Ph.D. at Columbia University.
Attorney General Eric ... minority communities.
12/16/16
Orientalism K
Tournament: Ghill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Murphy Middle | Judge: Carlos Taylor The aff’s positioning of banning nuclear energy is an affirmation of orientalist fears. They do not want the powerless, irrational beings to hold this valuable energy if it could potentially threaten the west. Gusterson 06’ “A Double Standard on Nuclear Weapons?” Hugh Gusterson, Hugh Gusterson is an anthropologist at George Washington University, back from leave at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His work focuses on nuclear culture, international security and the anthropology of science The Non-Proliferation …honorable in its frankness. The aff’s banning of the global south perpetuates a Eurocentric liberal ideology that certain states are capable to use nuclear weapons while others are not. Chung 14’ “Postcolonial Perspectives on Nuclear Nonproliferation, ” Alex Chung, graduated in 2013 with an MA in International Relations (IR) from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. He is currently under supervision of A/Prof John Rees at the University of Notre Dame Australia While the end the ‘Cold War’ …of nuclear proliferation: The perpetuation of preventing an untraditional power to have nuclear power supports colonial and oppression of the have nots. Chung 14’ “Postcolonial Perspectives on Nuclear Nonproliferation, ” Alex Chung, graduated in 2013 with an MA in International Relations (IR) from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. He is currently under supervision of A/Prof John Rees at the University of Notre Dame Australia Nuclear weapons were introduced … enormously dangerous,” (Gusterson 1999, p. 112).
Representations must precede policy discussion. Our frame of discussion determines provided solutions. It is precisely the affirmative’s exclusionary frame of nuclear energy that limits which arguments are considered legitimate. Crawford 02 Neta Crawford, PhD, MA MIT, BA Brown, Prof. of Political Science at Boston University, “Argument and Change in World Politics,” 2002. pp. 19-21 Coherent arguments are … is a meta-argument.
Western imperialist and Orientalist discourse justify Western interventionism, racism and colonialism—The Orient operates uncannily, simultaneously fetishized and demonized to advance the purposes of Western hegemony and exploitation Zaidi-Jivraj 14 (Afroze, founder of the Lifting the Veil project, and master’s in religious studies at Univ of Birmingham, writes for Huffington Post, “The Racist Ideology of Orientalism and its Implications,” The Lifting the Veil Project, 4/18/2014) KC In 1978, the publication …they truly are.
The alternative is to embrace anti-western forms of knowledge production – our strategy is critical to integrated the historically marginalized perspectives
Andrews 12. “The Big Bang Theories of International Relations (IR): Who Said What, When, How, and What’s Missing” Nathan Andrews June 13-15, 2012 Canadian Political Science Association URL: https://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2012/Andrews.pdf First, non-Western…. of study.
9/17/16
Warming DA
Tournament: Ghill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake | Judge: Mitali Climate Change is at all time high. Slazak 5/16 “ World's carbon dioxide concentration teetering on the point of no return” Michael Slazak, Michael is Guardian Australia's environment reporter. Before that, he spent four years at New Scientist, where he won several awards for his journalism. The CO2 concentrations are … by the biggest margins ever seen.
Global warming has been staved off because nuclear energy. Other alternatives will not be used—fossil fuels are too cheap to not be used. Nuclear is key. Biello 13’ “How Nuclear Power Can Stop Global Warming,” David Biello is a contributing editor at Scientific American. He has been reporting on the environment and energy since 1999. In addition to reducing….University, where Hansen works. Nuclear energy prohibition would increase unemployment, cause massive economic turmoil, and increase Co2 levels. Tverberg 11’ “What The End Of Nuclear Power Would Actually Mean For The World,” Gail Tverberg, reporter and journalist
t the other end of the range,… or natural gas today. Global warming is anthropogenic and will cause extinction James Hansen 12, PHD, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, May 9, 2012, “Game Over for the Climate”, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/opinion/game-over-for-the-climate.html?_r=1andpartner=rssnytandemc=rss, GLOBAL warming isn’t …. slowly rising carbon price. Allowing warming to continue perpetuates racist inequalities Hoerner 8—Former director of Research at the Center for a Sustainable Economy, Director of Tax Policy at the Center for Global Change at the University of Maryland College Park, and editor of Natural Resources Tax Review. He has done research on environmental economics and policy on behalf of the governments of Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. Andrew received his B.A. in Economics from Cornell University and a J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law—AND—Nia Robins—former inaugural Climate Justice Corps Fellow in 2003, director of Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (J. Andrew, “A Climate of Change African Americans, Global Warming, and a Just Climate Policy for the U.S.” July 2008, http://www.ejcc.org/climateofchange.pdf) Everywhere we turn, the issues and impacts …. of incidents of asthma
9/18/16
race k jan feb
Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit | Judge: Panny Shan, Nadia Hussein Free Speech is not racially neutral as historically; it has allowed racism to continue virtually unchecked. Gillborn 09 (David Professor of Education at the University of London “Risk-Free Racism: Whiteness and So-Called ‘Free Speech.’” Wake Forest Law Review 44 Wake Forest L. Rev. 535. Summer, 2009. LexisNexis Academic) Despite the numerous ... for, White people. Their argument is that they can persuade white people and make things better for black people. The politics of hope forces people, when they have hope, to only spend it in the sphere of the Political. The ability to have hope in the government excludes other avenues for change, sanctioning the systems that are inherently based on the slaughter of black bodies. Nihilistically rejecting hope is key to overturn the reliance on hope in the white system. Warren 15 Calvin L., Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope; Surce: CR: The New Centennial Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Derrida and French Hegelianism (Spring 2015), XMT, pp. 215-248 Published by: Michigan State University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.15.1.0215 . Accessed: 30/03/2015 Following Kant and .... practicing, and conceiving of hope.
Reliance on legality as a metric of progress fuels a violent temporal narrative that materializes the permanency of whiteness – Western common law demands a series of affective attachments to the law, which ensures bodies come to desire the structure that produces violence against them. Their arguments about bringing some measure of relief or change constitute cruel optimism --- they rely on a trick of time that retreats to “could be” or “maybe later” --- refusing the blackmail of “doing politics” in a rejection of this trickery Warren 15 Calvin K., Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, “Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope,” CR: The New Centennial Review, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2015 Kguy The politics of hope...blackness in an anti-black world. Carry out political apostasy through black nihilism. Refuse to participate in and thus uphold the Politics of anti-blackness. Warren 15 Calvin L., Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope; Surce: CR: The New Centennial Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Derrida and French Hegelianism (Spring 2015), XMT, pp. 215-248 Published by: Michigan State University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.15.1.0215 . Accessed: 30/03/2015
