Tournament: Shirley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Texas BJ | Judge: Brian Severson
The attempt to legally contain the sovereign’s exceptional powers does nothing for the state of political legal exception we live in and only gives further justification for violent intervention on the basis of legality
Dyzenhaus 05 (David, is a professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, “Schmitt v. Dicey: Are States of Emergency Inside or Outside the Legal Order?” Cardozo Law Review 27 http://pre.docdat.com/docs/index-42088.html?page=2 accessed 9/20/13 NB)
Rossiter had in mind Lincoln's actions during the Civil War, including the proclamation by
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of the substantive conception of the rule of law than true black holes.

The aff’s juridification of life results in an imperfect nihilism that destroys value to life, only by voting neg to reject the aff and engage in perfect nihilism can we overturn the Nothing and restore unity to bios and zoe
Mills 4 (Catherine, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, specializes in ethics, Feminist theory and contemporary European Political Philosophy “Contingency, Responsibility and the Law: A Response,” borderlands e-journal 3.1 (2004): http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol3no1_2004/mills_contingency.htm accessed 9/15/13 NB)
8. It is precisely this recognition that underpins Giorgio Agamben’s critique of the increasing
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that separates the messianic from our time. (Agamben 1999:164).

Tournament: Shirley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Texas BJ | Judge: Brian Severson
The United States Federal Government should pass a concurrent Congressional resolution expressing Congressional support for restricting the President’s war powers authority in the area of targeted killing based on relevant executive documents outlining the legal basis and justifications for drone strikes, and expressing the intent to remove funding if the executive doesn’t comply.
(--) It competes – it’s non-statutory
Swaine, 10 - Associate Professor, George Washington University Law School (Edward, “THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF YOUNGSTOWN” http://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017andcontext=faculty_publications) 

Furthermore, Justice Jackson’s framework also suggested that congressional will could be expressed non-
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but not presented to the President – would be even better indicia.108

(--) Congressional non-binding resolution is a better signal than Congressional statutes:
Swaine, 10 - Associate Professor, George Washington University Law School (Edward, “THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF YOUNGSTOWN” http://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017andcontext=faculty_publications) 

A second, more ambitious approach would be to supplement the¶ Youngstown¶ framework
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and, ultimately, diminish congressional constraints on the¶ executive branch.¶ 30
(--) The counterplan avoids politics
Harvard Law Review, 11 (“A CHEVRON FOR THE HOUSE AND SENATE: DEFERRING TO POST-ENACTMENT CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTIONS THAT INTERPRET AMBIGUOUS STATUTES” 124 Harv. L. Rev. 1507, April, lexis)
If Congress wishes to resolve a statutory ambiguity, it always has the option of
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interpretation must be "based on a permissible construction of the statute." n13

Tournament: Shirley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Texas BJ | Judge: Brian Severson
A) Immigration reform will pass. Has bipart support

Foreman and Stolz 11/13 Dale and Rich, wenatcheeworld.com "Immigration Reform, now" http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2013/nov/13/immigration-reform-now/

Fortunately, there are voices in both parties already lining up behind finally passing comprehensive
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his goal, his priority to bring immigration reform to the floor.”

b) Debates on the authority to use force take up enormous time and political energy:
Steve Vladeck, 3/14/2013 (staff writer, “Hard National Security Choices,” http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/03/drones-domestic-detention-and-the-costs-of-libertarian-hijacking/, Accessed 8/19/2013, rwg)
But the cost to the government is also relevant. As last week demonstrates,
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points, but because there’s so much more in what’s not being said.
C) Political Capital key to CIR
Orlando Sun Sentinel 11-1
“What we Think: It’ll Take Both Parties to Clear Immigration Reform,” http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-11-01/news/os-ed-immigration-reform-congress-20131031_1_immigration-reform-comprehensive-reform-house-republicans

For those who thought the end of the government shutdown would provide a break from
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, better for security, and better for the future of their party.
D) Immigration reform key to US-Latin American relations:
Arturo Lopez-Levy, 11/24/2012 (doctoral candidate at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies of the University of Denver, “The Latin American Gorilla,” http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/opinion/the-latin-american-gorilla-318169.html, Accessed 1/23/2013, rwg)
Few political acts would have a greater effect on U.S.-Latin American
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remittances, investment, and the voting preferences of expatriates from those countries.
E) US-Latin American relations solve a host of existential scenarios:
Shifter 12 (Michael is the President of Inter-American Dialogue. “Remaking the Relationship: The United States and Latin America,” April, IAD Policy Report, http://www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/IAD2012PolicyReportFINAL.pdf, Accessed 1/23/2013, rwg)… firmer basis for hemispheric partnership.

Tournament: Shirley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Texas BJ | Judge: Brian Severson
A) Neg. Interp:  Restriction is a prohibition
Northglenn 11 (City of Northglenn Zoning Ordinance, “Rules of Construction – Definitions”, http://www.northglenn.org/municode/ch11/content_11-5.html)

Section 11-5-3. Restrictions. As used in this …authorized by any permit or license.

B) The plan limits the authority in a given area—doesn’t eliminate it.
C) Standards:
1) Limits:  thousands of limitations in a given area exist—like limiting drone strikes in single countries or limiting drone strikes over land, sea, etc.  
2) Ground:  small limits on the given area deny links to topic specific disads like presidential flexibility.
D) Voting Issue:  Fairness and Education