Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Loyola AO | Judge: De La O, Dino
Nuclear power is the only way to generate sufficient energy for large-scale desalination
IAEA 15 (widely known as the world's "Atoms for Peace" organization within the United Nations family. Set up in 1957 as the world's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field, the Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies, “New Technologies for Seawater Desalination Using Nuclear Energy,” IEAE TecDoc Series, 2015)
 It is anticipated that …in the Mediterranean region

Water crises cause escalating global conflict.
Rasmussen 11 (Erik, CEO, Monday Morning; Founder, Green Growth Leaders) “Prepare for the Next Conflict: Water Wars” HuffPo 4/12)
For years experts …wars will accelerate.

That goes nuclear
Zahoor 12 (Musharaf, Researcher at Department of Nuclear Politics – National Defense University, Water Crisis can Trigger Nuclear War in South Asia, http://www.siasat.pk)
Water is an ambient …through political will.

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Loyola AO | Judge: De La O, Dino
Prism is good
Gray ’15, Jane Gray, 3-13-2015, " Game changer: Prism aims to dethrone Mox," Utility Week, http://utilityweek.co.uk/news/game-changer-prism-aims-to-dethrone-mox/1110402#.V7E085grJh0
However, Wileman and …did for aviation.

And, we solve for meltdowns – PRISM makes them scientifically impossible
Nathan ’13, Stuart Nathan, May 2013, "Prism project: A proposal for the UK’s problem plutonium," The Engineer, https://www.theengineer.co.uk/issues/energy-and-sustainability-special/prism-project-a-proposal-for-the-uks-problem-plutonium/
Moreover, Powell said, …to stop the reaction.

Sodium is uniquely a great coolant
Lyans ’12, Mark Lynas (frequent speaker around the world on climate change, biotechnology and nuclear power, and was climate change advisor to the President of the Maldives between 2009 and 2011. In October 2013 he was appointed a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University’s Office of International Programs at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and now works with the Cornell Alliance for Science, funded entirely by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.), 7-9-2012, "World’s first nuclear waste-burning PRISM reactor moves a step closer in the UK," Mark Lynas, http://www.marklynas.org/2012/07/worlds-first-nuclear-waste-burning-prism-reactor-moves-a-step-closer-in-the-uk/
Sodium is actually …design of PRISM.

Tournament: GBX | Round: 1 | Opponent: Fenwick IC | Judge: Isis Davis-Marks
A is the interpretation: The Aff may not specify a particular method of limiting qualified immunity
B is the violation… they don’t
C are the standards:
1 Limits- The Aff allows way too many Affs. This EXPLODES aff ground
Bernick ’15 (Bernick, Evan, Contributor, Foundation for Economic Education “To Hold Police Accountable, Don’t Give Them Immunity.” Foundation for Economic Education, April 2015 https://fee.org/articles/to-hold-police-accountable-dont-give-them-immunity/)
There are a...the better debating.

2 Ground- Too much Aff ground

D Voters

Tournament: Badgerfield | Round: 4 | Opponent: Golden Meir | Judge: Dave Mcginnis
A. Interpretation: The Aff must specify the actor or group of actors that implements the aff advocacy in an explicit text in the AC.
B. Violation: this isn’t specified in the AC/doesn’t answer in CX
C. are the standards:
Weighing ground-
Real world application-

Policy education- agent spec is key to nuanced debates over the merits of the aff policy.
Cheshier David M. (Assistant Professor of Communications and Director of Debate at Georgia State University) “Debating Agent Specification”
Defenders of agent...certain legislated outcomes.
That’s key to education- ensures we’re learning about current events and how impacts function in the real world.

D. Voters. Fairness is a voter-
Educations a voter-
Drop the debater: 1.
Competing interps
No RVIs:

Tournament: Badgerfield | Round: 2 | Opponent: Whitefish Bay AP | Judge: IDK
The aff further exacerbates the harms of qualified immunity by adding to the massive constellation of impenetrable case law.
Hassel , (Diana - Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs @ Roger Williams University School of Law, J.D., Rutgers University B.A., Mount Holyoke College "Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity", Missouri Law Review Volume 64 Issue 1 Winter 1999 Article 9 Winter 1999, p. 123-124, scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3402andcontext=mlr
In Part 11I...entitlement to immunity.

And, their focus on the defendant in civil rights liability disputes distracts from broader social awareness
Hassel 2, (Diana - Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs @ Roger Williams University School of Law, J.D., Rutgers University B.A., Mount Holyoke College "Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity", Missouri Law Review Volume 64 Issue 1 Winter 1999 Article 9 Winter 1999, p. 133-134, scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3402andcontext=mlr
These laudable goals...of civil rights.

The activism of the AC is a placebo  
McKeever '95, (Robert J - President of the National Water Safety Congress), "Raw Judicial Power?: The Supreme Court and American Society", Manchester University Press, 1995, p. 16-17, https://books.google.com/books?id=D-nBAAAAIAAJandprintsec=frontcoverandsource=gbs_atb#v=onepageandqandf=false
It is not...new problems emerge.'"

Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Bettendorf AW | Judge: Parent Judge
Counterplan Text: The Supreme Court should engage in binding regulatory negotiations over excessive force with relevant and appropriate stakeholders. 

Rushin and Edwards ’17, (Stephen and Griffin - Stephen Rushin is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. Professor Rushin holds a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Griffin Edwards is an Assistant Professor of Business at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Collat School of Business. Professor Edwards holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Emory University.), “DE-POLICING”, DRAFT, Forthcoming, Cornell Law Review Volume 102 (2017), p. 51-52
So where do...the implementation process.”204

The counterplan is mutually exclusive
McKinney '99 (Mathew J - Director of the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at the University of Montana, chair of the university's Natural Resource Conflict Resolution Program, and adjunct professor in the School of Law.), "ARTICLE: Negotiated Rulemaking: Involving Citizens In Public Decisions", Montana Law Review, Summer, 1999, 60 Mont L. Rev. 499
Negotiated rulemaking, sometimes referred to as regulatory negotiation or "reg-neg," emerged...agency and stakeholders.

The counterplan solves aff impacts better and avoids the DAs.
Harter '97 (Philip J. - Professor Emeritus University of Missouri School of Law. Former Director of the Program on Consensus, Democracy and Governance at Vermont Law School. Areas of Expertise Collaboration to Develop Policy for Democracy, Federal Government, Open Government, Regulatory Process) "FEAR OF COMMITMENT: AN AFFLICTION OF ADOLESCENTS", Duke Law Journal, Vol. 46:1389, 1997, scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007andcontext=dlj
Conclusion: What...their full potential. 

Lack of police buy into measures meant to increase scrutiny of potential misconduct results in a de-policing effect.
Rushin and Edwards ’17, (Stephen and Griffin - Stephen Rushin is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. Professor Rushin holds a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Griffin Edwards is an Assistant Professor of Business at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Collat School of Business. Professor Edwards holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Emory University.), “DE-POLICING”, DRAFT, Forthcoming, Cornell Law Review Volume 102 (2017), p. 51-52
While this Article...these growing pains.

De-policing is a DA to the AC since it results increases crime and decreases public safety.
Sutton '15 (Randy - Senior Sergeant at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Nevada. A member of the Screen Actors Guild), "The dangers of de-policing -- will cops just stand down?" New York Post, 05/05/2015, nypost.com/2015/05/05/the-dangers-of-de-policing-will-cops-just-stand-down/
Not only are...defended the shield