Tournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: Weber MZ | Judge:
Their appeal to human rights arguments is an attempt to cover up the exploitation inherent in capitalism
Tumino 2 (Stephen. “Contesting the Empire-al Imaginary: The Truth of Democracy as Class”. Red Critique. http://www.redcritique.org/MayJune02/contestingtheempirealimaginary.htm)

The logic of capitalism results in extinction through the creation of ecological catastrophe and violent imperialist wars that will turn nuclear
Foster 5 John Bellamy, Monthly Review, September, Vol. 57, Issue 4, “Naked Imperialism”, http://www.monthlyreview.org/0905jbf.htm

Our alternative is to not do the affirmative and withdraw from capitalism, allowing a new world to grow inside the space our resistance hollows out.
Herod ‘4 (James Herod, Faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, 2004, http://www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/index.htm)

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 2 | Opponent: JCCC BN | Judge:
Buddhist ideology is a convenient way to feign leftism while maintaining integration into global capitalism
Zizek 1 (Slavoj Zizek, Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana University, 2003, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity, p. 26-7)

Subjectivity subverts the anti-capitalist struggle – it is only from the objective material facts of class that the exploitation of labor can be explained and undermined
Zavarzadeh 3 (Mas’ud, “The Pedagogy of Totality” p.23-25, in “JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics”, Volume 23.1, http://www.jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol23.1.html)

Their advocacy is inherently incoherent and it engages in fierce classism because it says the poor deserve to be poor
Zacharias 0 (Ravi, Former Buddhist, http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aiia/aiia-buddhism-harris.html 2000)

The logic of capitalism results in extinction through the creation of ecological catastrophe and violent imperialist wars that will turn nuclear
Foster 5 John Bellamy, Monthly Review, September, Vol. 57, Issue 4, “Naked Imperialism”, http://www.monthlyreview.org/0905jbf.htm

Vote negative to adopt the historical material criticism of the 1NC - historical analysis of the material conditions of capital is the only way to break free from is contradictions and social inequalities it causes
Tumino 1 (Steven, teaches at the City University of New York, Spring, What is Orthodox Marxism and Why it Matters Now More Than Ever Before)

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: Weber MZ | Judge:
Executive war power primacy now – Syria debate proves.
Posner, Kirkland and Ellis Professor, University of Chicago Law School, 9-3
Eric, 9/3/13, Obama Is Only Making His War Powers Mightier, www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2013/09/obama_going_to_congress_on_syria_he_s_actually_strengthening_the_war_powers.html

Congressional intervention collapses crisis response --- they’re too inflexible, inexperienced, and open --- the link threshold is low.
-AT: Holmes medical analogy
Posner, Kirkland and Ellis Professor, University of Chicago Law School, ‘12
Eric, Winter, “REFLECTIONS ON THE LAW OF SEPTEMBER 11: A TEN-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE: DEFERENCE TO THE EXECUTIVE IN THE UNITED STATES AFTER SEPTEMBER 11: CONGRESS, THE COURTS, AND THE OFFICE OF LEGAL COUNSEL,” 35 Harv. J.L. and Pub. Pol'y 213, Lexis

Court interference decks the Executive flexibility necessary to solve prolif, terror, and the rise of hostile powers---link threshold is low.
Blomquist, Professor of Law, Valparaiso University School of Law, ‘10
Robert, THE JURISPRUDENCE OF AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIPRUDENCE, 44 Val. U.L. Rev. 881

Effective executive response is key to prevent global crises --- specifically: Iranian nuclearization, North African terrorism, Russian aggression, and Senkaku conflict
Ghitis 13
Frida, world affairs columnist for The Miami Herald and World Politics Review. A former CNN producer and correspondent, she is the author of The End of Revolution: A Changing World in the Age of Live Television. “World to Obama: You can't ignore us,” 1/22, http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/22/opinion/ghitis-obama-world

Senkaku conflict is on the brink --- quick U.S. intervention is key to prevent global nuclear escalation.
Klare, Five College professor of peace and world security studies @ Hampshire College, ‘13
Michael, He holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute. “The Next War”, 1/23, http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2013/01/23/the_next_war_100500.html

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 2 | Opponent: JCCC BM | Judge:
“Resolved” proves the framework for the resolution is to enact a policy.
Words and Phrases 64 Permanent Edition

The USFG is the government in Washington D.C.
Encarta 2k http://encarta.msn.com

This is an a priori issue
Shively, 2k (Assistant Prof Political Science at Texas AandM, Ruth Lessl, Partisan Politics and Political Theory, p. 181-2)JFS

Limits are key – infinite political theories exist, artificial limits are key
Lutz 2k (Donald S. Professor of Polisci at Houston, Political Theory and Partisan Politics p. 39-40)JFS

Abandoning politics causes war, slavery, and authoritarianism
Boggs 2k (CAROL BOGGS, PF POLITICAL SCIENCE – SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 00, THE END OF POLITICS, 250-1)

Tournament: CEDA | Round: 1 | Opponent: Missouri CH | Judge:
The judiciary adheres to political question deference now—but doctrinal repudiation would reverse that
Franck ‘12
Thomas, Murray and Ida Becker Professor of Law, New York University School of Law Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award 1999, Political Questions/Judicial Answers

Setting a precedent against the PQD spills over to climate change cases---litigants are turning to the Courts now and asking them to abrogate the PQD
Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law School, ‘10
Laurence H., Joshua D. Branson, J.D., Harvard Law School and NDT Champion, Northwestern University; and Tristan L. Duncan, Partner, Shook, Hardy and Bacon L.L.P., January 2010, “TOOHOTFORCOURTSTO HANDLE: FUEL TEMPERATURES, GLOBAL WARMING, AND THE POLITICAL QUESTION DOCTRINE,” http://www.wlf.org/Upload/legalstudies/workingpaper/012910Tribe_WP.pdf

That crushes global coordination necessary to solve climate change.
Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law School, ‘10
Laurence H., Joshua D. Branson, J.D., Harvard Law School and NDT Champion, Northwestern University; and Tristan L. Duncan, Partner, Shook, Hardy and Bacon L.L.P., January 2010, “TOOHOTFORCOURTSTO HANDLE: FUEL TEMPERATURES, GLOBAL WARMING, AND THE POLITICAL QUESTION DOCTRINE,” http://www.wlf.org/Upload/legalstudies/workingpaper/012910Tribe_WP.pdf

Warming is real, anthropogenic and causes extinction
Flournoy 12 -- Citing Feng Hsu, PhD NASA Scientist @ the Goddard Space Flight Center. Don Flournoy is a PhD and MA from the University of Texas, Former Dean of the University College @ Ohio University, Former Associate Dean @ State University of New York and Case Institute of Technology, Project Manager for University/Industry Experiments for the NASA ACTS Satellite, Currently Professor of Telecommunications @ Scripps College of Communications @ Ohio University (Don, "Solar Power Satellites," January, Springer Briefs in Space Development, Book, p. 10-11

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: Weber MZ | Judge: 

1. Statutory laws are specific written instructions from a legislature
   West’s 08 (West’s encyclopedia of American Law 2008, “Statute,” http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/statute+law)

2. Judicial restrictions include affirming prerequisites or standards from statutes
Carpenter 85 Ted Galen, The Nation, The New Anti-Youth Movement, January 19

Tournament: CED A | Round: 1 | Opponent: Missouri CH | Judge: Brian Box
A. Interpretation: United States Armed Forces means Personnel and it excludes weapons or capabilities.
Lorber 2013 Eric, EXECUTIVE WARMAKING AUTHORITY AND OFFENSIVE CYBER OPERATIONS: CAN EXISTING LEGISLATION SUCCESSFULLY CONSTRAIN PRESIDENTIAL POWER?, J.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Ph.D Candidate, Duke University Department of Political Science, p. 989

B. Violation -- The aff changes weapons force posture for the President, it doesn’t alter the deployment or use of Personnel.

limits

Grounds

Voter for fairness and education

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: Weber MZ | Judge:
CP Text: The Executive branch of the United States should limit targeted killings to individuals who U.S. officials claim are being targeted, provide a public accounting of how it meets the principles of distinction and proportionality that the Obama administration claims, review its current policy whereby the executive authority for drone strikes is split between the CIA and JSOC, provide information to the public, Congress and UN special rapporteurs on what procedures exist to prevent harm to civilians, ban signature strikes and never conduct non battlefield targeted killings without an accountable human being authorizing the strike. 

Self-Restraint is the best option for shaping international use of drones through norms
Zenko 13 (Micah, Dr. Zenko is a Douglas Dillon fellow in the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), he worked for five years at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and in Washington, DC, at the Brookings Institution, Congressional Research Service, and State Department's Office of Policy Planning, Council Special Report No.65, January 2013, p. 24-25, Reforming US Drone Strike Policies, i.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Drones_CSR65.pdf)