Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Texas Bhattacharjee-Jones | Judge: Wunderlich
COUNTERPLAN: The President of the United States should issue an Executive Order committing the executive branch to Solicitor General representation and advance consultation with the Office of Legal Counsel over decisions regarding requirements for drone strikes in the area of targeted killing.  The Department of Justice officials involved should counsel that the president should publicize and clarify relevant executive documents outlining the legal basis and justifications for drone strikes.  The Executive Order should also require written publication of Office of Legal Counsel opinions.
The counterplan restrains the executive through DOJ adjudication—solves case through pre-commitment
Pillard 2005 – JD from Harvard, Faculty Director of Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown University Law Center, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the DOJ (February, Cornelia T., Michigan Law Review, 103.4, “The Unfulfilled Promise of the Constitution in Executive Hands”, 103 Mich. L. Rev. 676-758, http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/189/)

V. ENABLING EXECUTIVE CONSTITUTIONALISM … counter to it.
Disclosure makes the counterplan credible and checks impulsive decisions
Marguiles 2012 – Professor of Law, Roger Williams University (5/15, Peter, Pepperdine Law Review, Volume 39, Issue 4, Article 1, “Reforming Lawyers into Irrelevance?: Reconciling Crisis and Constraint at the Office of Legal Counsel”, http://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1370andcontext=plr)
*NOTE: Marguiles not to be confused with Margolis, who worked in the DOJ after John Yoo

Disclosure is an … such circumstances prevail.
Presumptively binding opinions maintain OLC credibility without hurting flexibility
Morrison 2011 – Professor of Law, Columbia University (Trevor W., Harvard Law Review, ““Hostilities,” the Office of Legal Counsel, and the Process of Executive Branch Legal Interpretation”, 124 HARV. L. REV.F. 62, http://web.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/microsites/constitutional-governance/files/Libya-Hostilities-Office-of-Legal-Counsel.pdf)

Once OLC arrived … latter is jeopardized.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Texas Bhattacharjee-Jones | Judge: Wunderlich
Obama’s pressuring the GOP with a strong display of Presidential strength and staying on message – the GOP will blink
Dovere, 10/1/13 (Edward, Politico, “Government shutdown: President Obama holds the line”
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/government-shutdown-president-obama-holds-the-line-97646.html?hp=f3)

President Barack Obama started September … way as people rethink this.”
Fighting to defend the war power derails the rest of the agenda
Kriner 10 Douglas L. Kriner (assistant professor of political science at Boston University) “After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War”, University of Chicago Press, Dec 1, 2010, page 68-69.
While congressional support … the international arena.
That takes Obama off-message – it undermines his strategy of constant pressure on the GOP
Milbank, 9/27/13 – Washington Post Opinion Writer (Dana, “Obama should pivot to Dubya’s playbook” Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-obama-should-try-pivoting-to-george-bushs-playbook/2013/09/27/c72469f0-278a-11e3-ad0d-b7c8d2a594b9_story.html)

If President Obama … demoralize his supporters.
It consumes his capital, undermines Democratic unity and prevents passing the debt ceiling
Lillis, 9/7/13 (Mike, The Hill, “Fears of wounding Obama weigh heavily on Democrats ahead of vote”
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/320829-fears-of-wounding-obama-weigh-heavily-on-democrats#ixzz2gWiT9H8u 

The prospect of … very difficult votes."

That causes default and will destroy the U.S. and global economy
Davidson, 9/10/13 – co-founder of NPR’s Planet Money (Adam, “Our Debt to Society” New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/magazine/our-debt-to-society.html?pagewanted=all)

If the debt … past several years.
Nuclear war
Friedberg and Schoenfeld 8
Aaron, Prof. Politics. And IR @ Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and Visiting Scholar @ Witherspoon Institute, and Gabriel, Senior Editor of Commentary and Wall Street Journal, “The Dangers of a Diminished America”, 10-28, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html
Then there are … with external adventures.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Texas Bhattacharjee-Jones | Judge: Wunderlich
Presidential war power expansion is inevitable – legal restrictions are temporary and unenforceable in the long term
Posner and Vermeule, 10 - *professor of law at the University of Chicago AND professor of law at Harvard (Eric and Adrian, The Executive Unbound, p. 41-45)

Liberal legalists, following … in times of crisis.57
Secrecy and expertise are crucial features of executive
Posner 12 ERIC A. POSNER ( Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. An editor of The Journal of Legal Studies, he has also published numerous articles and books on issues in international law) “DEFERENCE TO THE EXECUTIVE IN THE UNITED STATES AFTER SEPTEMBER 11: CONGRESS, THE COURTS, AND THE OFFICE OF LEGAL COUNSEL” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. 2012. http://ericposner.com/DEFERENCE20TO20THE20EXECUTIVE.pdf

The debate is … that kill civilians.
Crises are inevitable and unpredictable – speed and flexibility in crisis response are vital to preserving US hegemony
Berkowitz, 8 - research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a senior analyst at RAND. He is currently a consultant to the Defense Department and the intelligence community (Bruce, STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE: CHALLENGERS, COMPETITORS, AND THREATS TO AMERICA’S FUTURE, p. 1-4)

THIS BOOK is … its own resources.
Targeted killing’s vital to counterterrorism---disrupts leadership and makes carrying out attacks impossible
Kenneth Anderson 13, Professor of International Law at American University, June 2013, “The Case for Drones,” Commentary, Vol. 135, No. 6
Targeted killing of … and organizational effectiveness.

Constraining targeted killing’s role in the war on terror causes extinction
Louis Rene Beres 11, Professor of Political Science and International Law at Purdue, 2011, “After Osama bin Laden: Assassination, Terrorism, War, and International Law,” Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 44 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L. 93
Even after the … by unconventional attacks.

Risk of nuclear terrorism is high, causes extinction
Costello, 12 – Ryan, coordinator of the Fissile Materials Working Group at the Connect U.S. Fund (“Involuntary response,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1/26/12, http://thebulletin.org/involuntary-response Red

Earlier this month, … uneven and fleeting.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: UT Dallas McHenry-Varney | Judge: Ziakowski
Dominant ideology is strengthened by critical opposition.  Their understanding of privilege and debate functions more to validate their efforts than address the problem.  The 1ac prefigures us as ambassadors for the status quo—voting aff can only entrench that symbolic order
David Gray  Carlson    Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Columbia Law Review  November, 1999

Schlag presents a … to be abolished.
Resistance makes ideology enjoyable—they get to relish our failure to justify a system without having to dislodge any fundamental beliefs.  It’s a cynical gesture to frame your vote as the arbiter of their cause
Slavoj  Zizek   Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. Cardozo Law Review  1995

Emphasis should be … rid of it.
The alternative is to not look for all the answers in debate—voting aff confines radicalism to a forum designed not to accomplish anything
Gunnell, 86 - Distinguished Professor of Political Science at University of Albany (John G., “Tradition, Interpretation, and Science: Political Theory in the American Academy” pages 351-352)

There may be … structure for another.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: UT Dallas McHenry-Varney | Judge: Ziakowski
A. Interpretation—the aff should defend topical action based on the resolution
The text of the rez calls for debate on hypothetical government action
Ericson 3 (Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4)

The Proposition of … that you propose.
“Topic relevance” doesn’t solve—only a precise and limited rez creates deliberation on a point of mutual difference
Steinberg and Freeley 8 *Austin J. Freeley is a Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, AND David L. Steinberg , Lecturer of Communication Studies @ U Miami, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making pp45-

Debate is a … the following discussion.
It’s a prior question—otherwise there's nothing to require structured disagreement
Adolf G. Gundersen, Associate Professor of Political Science, Texas AandM, 2000
POLITICAL THEORY AND PARTISAN POLITICS, 2000, p. 104-5. (DRGNS/E625)

Indirect political engagement … the same question.

The resolution equally divides ground to make dialogue possible. This allows for development of ideas, without excluding non-traditional perspectives. By ignoring the resolution the aff leaves the negative unheard, which is anti-educational and exclusive.
Galloway, 07 – Ryan, Assistant Professor and Director of Debate at Samford University (“DINNER AND CONVERSATION AT THE ARGUMENTATIVE TABLE: RECONCEPTUALIZING DEBATE AS AN ARGUMENTATIVE DIALOGUE,” Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, vol. 28, 2007, Ebsco)Red
This journal previously … untested axiological assumption.