Blake Invitational 1 Kamiak nb aff

2 Valley LB Neg

PIC/DA Impeachment

A. CP Text

Plea bargaining ought to be abolished in the US CJS with the exception of charges brought on individuals coming from the 2017 special counsel investigation.

B. Competition

THe CP competes

1) merriam webster def of abolition

2) net beneficial to the aff

C. Net Benefits

First, plea bargaining is k2 leveraging sentences to get information regarding the investigation from Trump officials and advisers.

Reilly 17:

"WASHINGTON ― Former national ... which he’s aware."

(Ryan Reilly, 12/01/17, “Mike Flynn Wasn’t Robert Mueller’s ‘Big Fish.’ Why The Trump Team Should Be Worried.”, Huffington Post) https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-flynn-trump-russia-mueller-probe_us_5a219c0fe4b03c44072d64bc || LB

Second, the Russia investigation is the only possibility of impeachment- either A) obstruction of justice from investigation or B) the firing of Mueller would trigger impeachment from abuse of power.

Dreyfuss 17:

"Adding to the ... calls for impeachment."

(Robert Dreyfuss, October 12th 2017, “Robert Mueller’s End Game: Is Trump’s Impeachment a Possibility?”) https://www.thenation.com/article/robert-muellers-end-game-is-trumps-impeachment-a-possibility/ || LB

Third, trump is the catalyst of modern oppression. The PIC is key. Trump should be rejected as unethical—he normalizes racism and breaks collective resistance

Giroux 17:

"Normalizing Trump’s Authoritarianism .... massive broad-based struggle"

McMaster University professor for scholarship in the public interest and the Paulo Freire distinguished scholar in critical pedagogy Henry, Tikkun contributing editor, "Normalizing Trump’s Authoritarianism is Not an Option," Tikkun, 1-19-17, www.tikkun.org/nextgen/normalizing-trumps-authoritarianism-is-not-an-option, accessed 7-31-17

D. Solvency

1) Solves the aff- analytic

2) Solves the DA- analytic

K Anthro

The placement of non-human categories among populations is used as a tool of fascism. Controlling the truth of the binary is an essential operation of modern forms of oppression. For human populations to survive they’re must be a peripheral other that is deemed less-than-human to be confined as the starting point of humanity. The aff links- your arguments are indexed specifically to the violence displaced on human bodies.

Stark and Roffe 14:

"The nonhuman turn ... than-human others."

(H. Stark and J. Roffe, University of Melbourne and University of Tasmania, January 14th 2014, “Deleuze and the Non/Human”) || LB

The conception of human is irredeemably nihilistic, entrapping becoming into a meaninglessness.

Stark and Roffe 2:

"We have already ... go beyond itself."

(H. Stark and J. Roffe, University of Melbourne and University of Tasmania, January 14th 2014, “Deleuze and the Non/Human”) || LB

The affirmatives act of rights protection reinforces an abstract notion of the human

Cohen and Colebrook 16:

"Our volume takes ... that never was."

(Tom Cohen and Claire Colebrook, “Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols”, Preface, 2016) || LB

The alternative is to live in a world in which humans are extinct

Kara 14:

"At first glance ... get acted out."

(Selmin Kara is an Assistant Professor of Film and New Media Studies at OCAD University and the Co-Chair of the ProprioMedia Colloquium Series in Media Studies and Research. She received her BA and MA in Istanbul, Turkey, and PhD in Detroit, USA. Dr. Kara's primary research interests are post-cinematic and materialist aesthetics in film and eco-cinema as well as the use of sound and new technologies in contemporary documentary. Selmin is the co-editor of the Routledge Anthology "Contemporary Documentary" and her work has also appeared in "The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media", "Sequence", "Music and Sound in Nonfiction Film," and "Studies in Documentary Film." She is currently revising two essays for the edited collections "The Philosophy of Documentary" and "Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st Century Film," and working on her book project on cinema and the Anthropocene. BEASTS OF THE DIGITAL WILD: Primordigital Cinema and the Question of Origins. 2014. http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence/files/2012/12/SEQUENCE-1.4-2014-_-SEQUENCE-One.pdf. MMG)

The role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who best methodologically and performatively articulates meaninglessness in the context of the flatness of ontology.

Brassier 07:

"This latter question ... of the mind."

(Ray Brassier, Ray Brassier is a member of the philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, known for his work in philosophical realism, 2007. Nihil Unbound Enlightenment and Extinction, Page 223-225) || LB

Theory Function Spec

If the affirmative debater reads two roles for some agent or device used by agent then they must include a list of distinctions and which one outweighs the other. Additionally, they must specify what offense from their case applies to each framing mechanism and label whether or not that offense is pre-fiat or post-fiat.

3 Newark BA Aff

https://hsld.debatecoaches.org/Newark+Science/Aaron+Aff

Aff Race

HarmsWelcome to the age of the plea bargain where the innocent and the marginalized are forced to plead guilty. The American CJS has justified a machinic system that doesn't want to acknowledge its ties to race.

Emily Yoffe is a contributing editor to The Atlantic., 09/17, "Innocence Is Irrelevant," Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/innocence-is-irrelevant/534171/

This is the

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of mass incarceration.

And, for Black people, the process is often racialized. Prosecutors have implicit biases when looking at Black defendants vs white defendants which justifies a disparate criminal justice system

Jenn Rolnick Borchetta is deputy director of the impact litigation practice at The Bronx Defenders and Alice Fontier is the managing director of the criminal defense practice at The Bronx Defenders, 10-23-2017, "New Research Finds That Prosecutors Give White Defendants Better Deals Than Black Defendants," Slate Magazine, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/10/new_research_finds_that_prosecutors_give_white_defendants_better_deals_than.html

A new study

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racially biased manner.

This bias allows for a crony capitalistic system that just pushes people into prisons

Danny Weil is a writer for Project Censored and Daily Censored. He received the Project Censored "Most Censored" News Stories of 2009-10 award for his article: "Neoliberalism, Charter Schools and the Chicago Model / Obama and Duncan's Education Policy: Like Bush's, Only Worse,", 11-7-2012, "Widespread Use of Plea Bargains Plays Major Role in Mass Incarceration," Truthout, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/12556-overwhelming-use-of-plea-bargains-plays-major-role-in-mass-incarceration

The plea bargain

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halls of justice.

And, the criminal justice system is a colorblind process that justifies the racialization of the criminal subject and a toxic culture

Jessica Xiao is a Contributing Writer for Everyday Feminism. She obtained her BA and Sc. in Psychology and the dark art of Economics at McGill University. She is a grant writer for the Montreal-based international women's economic development nonprofit Artistri Sud and the former assistant editor and writer at The Humanist. 11-20-2016, "3 Ways Our Criminal Justice System is Destructive to Our Society", Everyday Feminism, https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/11/criminal-justice-is-destructive/

But it's not just mass incarceration that poses a grave moral violation. It's every

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" simply reveals the safe space they enjoy. Because of their identity.

This is an international problem. Countries are adopting the practices of the US and persuading people to plead guilty.

Owen Bowcott is a legal affairs correspondent. He was formerly the Guardian's Ireland correspondent and also worked on the foreign newsdesk, 4-1-2017, "'Global epidemic' of US-style plea bargaining prompts miscarriage warning," Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/apr/27/traditional-trial-rights-renounced-as-countries-adopt-us-style-plea-bargaining

The adoption of

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third in 2014-15.

This form of systemic bigotry justifies safe spaces for white folks to live their utmost fantasies while Black people are susceptible to bigotry

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and the forthcoming book We Were Eight Years in Power., October 2017, "The First White President," Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/

The triumph of

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of their identity.

Solvency

Thus, the advocacy: The United States Federal government ought to abolish plea bargaining in the criminal justice system.

R A Fine,1987, "NCJRS Abstract," Marquette Law Review Volume:70 Issue:4 Datedemoticon_unhappySummer 1987) Pages:615-632, https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=110931

Abolishing it will

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on the record.

And, this abolishment over accelerates the courts and crashes them. Too many people would go onto trial. When people of color exercise their rights and push for trial, it causes enough chaos to turn mass incarceration on its head

Michelle Alexander is a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary, a civil rights advocate, and writer. , 3-10-2012, "Opinion," New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/go-to-trial-crash-the-justice-system.html

The Supreme Court ruled in 1978 that threatening someone with life imprisonment for a minor

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end this system, some of us will have to risk our lives."

And, even having this being an option on the table is revolutionary. Black people need to know that this is an option they can take to escape the brutality of a system of social control

Michelle Alexander 2 is a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary, a civil rights advocate, and writer. , 3-10-2012, "Opinion," New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/go-to-trial-crash-the-justice-system.html

In telling Susan

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risk our lives.”

Framework

====Thus, the ROB is to endorse the debater with the best educational praxis for Black and Brown groups. We must refuse to normatively engage in white institutions like the criminal justice system. Black people must embrace a mode of subjectivity that disavows proper forms of subjectivity and embrace our unlawful natures.====

Moten and Harney 2013 (Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, "The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study" | Released by Minor Compositions 2013 pp. 26-28)

"To the university I'll steal, and there I'll steal," to borrow from

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of the critical academic. The undercommons is therefore always an unsafe neighborhood.

And, the Role of the Judge is to be a psycho-intellectual invested in challenging Eurocentric consciousness. Only when we engage in the psycho-intellectual struggle to place value on blackness do we rupture the way we allow for Eurocentric capitalism to shape our understandings of care or lack thereof. Lack of governmental care and atrocities happen in black communities b/c Blackness occupies negative space and because whiteness owns positive spaces. Wynter 06:

Syliva Wynter—2006 ( "Interview with Syliva Wynter,ProudFlesh Interview: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics and Consciousness, Issue 4)

SYLVIA WYNTER: I want to remind you of what Black Studies asked for.

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of the period to which we give the name, "The Sixties."