Tournament: Lincoln Southwest Silver Talon | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lincoln LR | Judge: Payton Shudak

Court Clog DA

Qualified immunity prevents people from filing frivolous lawsuits which prevent courts from being flooded

Putnam and Ferri 92
Charles T. Putnam* and Charles T. Ferri, BRIDGEPORT LAW REVIEW QUINNIPIAC 1992 COLLEGE, DEFENDING A MALIGNED DEFENSE: THE POLICY BASES OF THE QUALIFIED IMMUNITY DEFENSE IN ACTIONS UNDER 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Spring 1992.
National resources are obviously scarce, yet increasing numbers of section
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safety measure for both the courts and defendants facing suit.

Court clogs delay and deny justice by slowing the court system and that doesn't allow judges to perform their jobs efficiently.

Bannon 13
Alicia Bannon (serves as counsel for the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, where her work focuses on judicial selection and promoting fair and impartial courts. Ms. Bannon also previously served as a Liman Fellow and Counsel in the Brennan Center's Justice Program. J.D. from Yale Law School in 2007, where she was a Comments Editor of the Yale Law Journal). "Testimony: More Judges Needed in Federal Courts." Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. September 10, 2013.
The growing workload in district courts around the country negatively
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as to ensure the continued vitality of our federal courts.

Tournament: Lincoln Southwest Silver Talon | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lincoln LR | Judge: Payton Shudak

Independent Prosecutors CP

Counterplan: United States ought to appoint independent investigators and prosecutors when dealing with qualified immunity for police.

Analytic

Whenever police are under investigation for brutality, there are no independent investigators, instead, the investigations are held by the police

Madar 14
Madar, Chase. "Why It's Impossible to Indict a Cop." The Nation, 25 Nov. 2014. Web.
The lethal use of police force typically sets off an
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is in poultry processing or coal mining, a sick joke.

Our current system of investigating and prosecuting police creates distrust between the people and the police because, for one, the police cannot effectively investigate one another without bias, can choose how to do so, and often try to shed the defendant in the best light. Prosecutors try to ask the defendant questions that will also shine the defendants in the best light and they cannot punish the police because harming the credibility of the police harms the credibility of the legal system and the police are the ones who provide work with them when providing evidence for court cases.

Katz 15
Katz, Walter. "Enhancing Accountability and Trust with Independent Investigations of Police Lethal Force." Harvard Law Review Comments. 10 Apr. 2015. Web.
There are few acts committed by local government that draw
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communities to regard the police as adversaries instead of protectors."33

Analytic

Tournament: Dowling Catholic Paradigm | Round: 4 | Opponent: Homewood-Flossmoor MB | Judge: Richard Shmikler
====Suits DA====

1. TURN: Limiting qualified immunity makes things worse because lawsuits are vastly expensive. Many victims of police violence are poor; telling them that the remedy is to file an expensive suit that will take years to finish and will almost certainly go against them only further victimizes them.

Higdon 10 (Higdon, Woodrow L. Investigative Photo Journalist, Former Police Officer "Public Corruption Cover Up Through Civil Litigation." GTI News, March LEFC 2010)
The so called "Civil and Criminal Justice Systems" in the United States,
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of the most effective public corruption cover up tools available to public agencies.

2. Turn- Lawsuits will lead to the public perception that plaintiffs are looking for a payout and allows police officers to be viewed as victims.  This turn is supercharged by the fact that police are seldom tried successfully, meaning the public just sees innocence. Also means the turn outweighs your offense on probability since recourse is near impossible.

3. Turn- juries love cops, so it's more likely that they won't deliver a guilty verdict. Patton

Patton, Alison (JD, UC Hastings College of Law) "Endless Cycle of Abuse: Why 42 USC 1983 Is Ineffective in Deterring Police Brutality, The." Hastings LJ 44 (1992): 753.
Even in the face of seemingly indisputable evidence, such as a videotape, an
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it serves to legitimize their behavior as perfectly acceptable, normalizing racist culture. 

Police won't be successfully prosecuted

Tully 16 ~(Author Attorney Joseph Tully) Police Brutality: Fed by Prosecutors, DAs, Judges, Tully andamp; Weiss 9-12-2016~ 
Police officers and prosecutors work closely together as a team, a team required to
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lie, use excessive force, withhold evidence and carry out false arrests.

Turn- Litigation creates a ruse of solvency and distract from more effective methods of systemic reform.

Rosenberg 08 (Gerald N., University of Chicago political science and law professor, Ph.D. from Yale University, member of the Washington, D.C. bar, The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring about Social Change?, p. 427) 
If this is the case, then there is another important way in which courts
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structurally constrained from serving their needs, providing only an illusion of change.

Turn- The AFF results in a cultural shift with a looming threat of lawsuit that only incentivizes police departments to attempt to stifle more litigations and misrepresent more information

Joanna C. Schwartz 10, 2010, "What Police Learn from Lawsuits," Cardozo L. Rev,
Police department closed claims reviews – like root cause analyses – sift through all available
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for fear that internal findings will compromise the defense of the case.236

Tournament: The Milo Cup at Millard North | Round: 6 | Opponent: Lincoln Southwest RJ | Judge: Susan Gunnink

Citizens United

1.Political spending is free speech

The Supreme Court ruled that political spending is constitutionally protected by the First Amendment's right to free speech meaning the government cannot place restrictions on political spending

Liptak 10-Adam Liptak covers the United States Supreme Court and writes "Sidebar," a column on legal developments. A graduate of Yale Law School, he practiced law for 14 years before joining The New York Times's news staff in 2002. He was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting. He has taught courses on the Supreme Court and the First Amendment at several law schools, including Yale and the University of Chicago, 1-21-2010, " Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit " New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/politics/22scotus.html**
WASHINGTON — Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of

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of 2002 that restricted campaign spending by corporations and unions.

Public colleges and universities are often funded by private investment

Mitchell 16-Dr. Brian C. Mitchell (Director of Edvance Foundation, Former College and University President). "Using Private Investors to Meet Higher Education's Facilities Needs."TheHuffingtonPost.com. The Huffington Post, 25 Apr. 2016. Web. 31 Jan. 2017. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-brian-c-mitchell/using-private-investors-t_b_9771106.html.**
Slowly, often led by the public colleges and universities, some

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expansion, and town/gown relations together in new and innovative ways.

2. PCUs shouldn't only care about the voices of the rich

Market-driven colleges and universities have a goal to satisfy those paying them

Sleeper 16-Jim Sleeper, a lecturer in political science at Yale, is the author of "Liberal Racism" (1997) and "The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York" (1990). "What the Campus 'Free Speech' Crusade Won't Say." AlterNet. AlterNet, 04 Sept. 2016. Web. 31 Jan. 2017. http://www.alternet.org/education/what-campus-free-speech-crusade-wont-say-0.**
When the FIRE and the larger conservative "free speech" campaign 

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a Foundation for Individual Rights in Employment in private businesses

Private investors and funders have been using their investments as a form of political spending requiring universities to further their political agenda in exchange for their money. PCUs should not value the voices and opinions of the rich at the expense of the students. Education becomes defined by what private investors want to be taught

MacDonald 05-G. Jeffrey MacDonald is a Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. "Donors: Too Much Say on Campus Speech?" The Christian Science Monitor. The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2005. Web. 31 Jan. 2017. http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0210/p11s01-legn.html.**
When controversial scholar Ward Churchill tried to speak last week

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favors affirmative action? Who is going to make these decisions?" 

Citizens United drowns out the voices of many and replaces it with the voices of the rich creating a class of inequality. This is harms free speech and doesn't allow for a marketplace of ideas, this turns case.

Kennedy 12- Liz Kennedy is as an attorney and advocate who joined the Demos in January 2012. She works to expand political participation and prevent voter disenfranchisement across the country by eliminating barriers to voting and enforcement of the National Voter Registration Act. Liz also focuses on campaign finance reforms to increase transparency and accountability for money in politics and to fight democratic corruption. , 1-15-2015, "Top 5 Ways Citizens United Harms Democracy and Top 5 Ways We're Fighting to Take Democracy Back," Demos, http://www.demos.org/publication/top-5-ways-citizens-united-harms-democracy-top-5-ways-weE28099re-fighting-take-democracy-back**
The Supreme Court required electoral districts to be drawn with

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The answer is clear: much less than before Citizens United.

Tournament: The Milo Cup at Millard North | Round: 2 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley KK | Judge: Andrew Anderson

Decadence

The aff asks us to simply trust their identity. Such moves discount evidence dooms the pursuit of knowledge and propagates decadence.

Gordon 06-Lewis Gordon—professor at philosophy, African and Judiac Studies at University of Connecticut Storrs—2006 (Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times, p 28-29)
A striking feature (among many) of the contemporary intellectual climate, as I
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of past failures of certain social remedies take the form of perennial truths.

The performance turns away from the various ways of knowing the world and ontologizes the language as the constitutive foundation of the world.

Gordon 14-Lewis Gordon—professor of philosophy, African and Judiac Studies at the University of Connecticut— 14 ("Disciplinary Decadence and the Decolonization of Knowledge," Africa Development 39.1: 81-92, 86-88).
Failure to appreciate reality sometimes takes the form of recoiling from it. An inward
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. It serves as further proof of the pathological nature of such people.

Analytic

Tournament: Westside Warrior Debate Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cascia Hall Prep LM | Judge: Fred Robertson

Hate Speech DA

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, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/07/no-theres-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/?utm_term=.05cfdd01dea4 LADI
I keep hearing about a supposed "hate speech" exception to the First Amendment
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with any established definition of "hate speech" that I know of.) 

Hate speech necessitates silencing someone. Either universities can restrict hate speech to silence the potential aggressor or they can allow hate speech to silence the marginalized.

Garrett 99-Deanna M. Garrett graduated from the University of Virginia in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in Religious Studies and a minor in Biology. She is a second-year HESA student and a Graduate Assistant in the Department of Residential Life. "Silenced Voices: Hate Speech Codes on Campus." Internet~~2001, 06/12/2001~ (1999). https://www.uvm.edu/~~vtconn/v20/garrett.html?mc_cid=9327f59068andmc_eid=18b6bd1018**

The Silencing Effect Advocates of hate speech codes contend that
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"fear, rage, ~and~ shock" of racist speech systematically preempts response. (p. 143)