Tournament: JMU | Round: 2 | Opponent: GMU | Judge:
The Counsel to the President of the United States should request to the Office of Legal Counsel for legal counsel and coordination on the President’s war powers authority. The Office of Legal Counsel should advise the President that he should substantially increase statutory restrictions on the war powers authority of the president of the united states by prohibiting first use of offensive cyber operaitons.

CP is competitive and solves the case ---- Coordination with OLC can ensure executive action
Borelli 2000
Professor of Government Chair of the Government and International Relations Department, Connecticut College (Maryanne Borrelli, Karen Hult, Nancy Kassop, “The White House Counsel’s Office”, http://whitehousetransitionproject.org/files/counsel/Counsel-OD.PDF)
The White House Counsel’s Office is at the hub of all presidential activity.
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healthcare debacle referring to the Clinton Counsel’s Office’s position that Hillary Rodham Clinton was a government official for FACA purposes …The ripple effect of that one decision is hard to exaggerate: it’s hard to calculate. (Gray interview, pp. 18-19)

Tournament: JMU | Round: 2 | Opponent: GMU | Judge:
PRESIDENTIAL FLEX KEY TO PREVENT ALL WAR
WAXMAN 2013 law professor at Columbia Law School, co-chairs the Roger Hertog Program on Law and National Security (Matthew Waxman, “The Constitutional Power to Threaten War,” August 27, 2013, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2316777)
As a prescriptive matter, Part II also shows that examination of threatened force
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presidential flexibility, preserved in legal doctrine, enhances the credibility of presidential threats to escalate.

Tournament: Vandy | Round: 5 | Opponent: GSU | Judge:
Silence on the human exploitative gaze towards non-human animals ensures that anthropocentrism continues
Bell, York University department of education, and Russell, Lakehead University associate professor, 2k (Anne C. and Constance L., department of education, York University, Canada, and Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, “Beyond Human, Beyond Words: Anthropocentrism, Critical Pedagogy, and the Poststructuralist Turn,” CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION 25, 3 (2000):188–203, http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE25-3/CJE25-3-bell.pdf, p. 192)

We come to critical pedagogy with a background in environmental
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to the core curriculum (A. Gough, 1997; Russell, Bell, and Fawcett, 2000), anthropocentrism passes unchallenged.1¶ p. 190-192

The language of human rights attempts to counter dehumanization with rehumanization, but fail to provide a cohesive challenge to systems of oppression. We should, instead, challenge the distinction between the human/non-human boundary, producing politics which take into account both the needs of vulnerable human populations and the non-human world.
Deckha in 2k10
Maneesha Associate Professor at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law in Victoria, Canada. “It’s time to abandon the idea of human rights”, The Scavenger, dec 10
Time for a new discourse That the human/subhuman binary
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by their dehumanization, but nonhumans as well.

The affirmative’s appeal for “human rights” is fundamentally exclusive—it perpetuates and legitimizes speciesism
Tittle 98 “The Humanist View of Animal Rights”
First, if humanism 'just' emphasized human-as-oppos
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It seems then that humanism must condone sport hunting

Anthropocentrism sets up the binary to cause extinction

Trenell, 2006
Paul, September, Department of International Politics, University of Wales, “The (Im)possibility of ‘Environmental Security’”

It is a relatively recent realisation that human activity
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for redressing the imbalance in the humanity-nature relationship.

Tournament: Vandy | Round: 5 | Opponent: GSU | Judge:
Abortion restrictions will happen during next Supreme Court Session – Kennedy is the swing vote

Toobin 5/28 (“The Abortion Issue Returns”, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/05/abortion-returns-to-the-supreme-court.html, Jeffrey, accessed 9/1)

As the Supreme Court’s term winds to a close this month, the Justices will be addressing a series of
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to a central place before the Justices, and in the political arena.

Controversial decisions burn capital – justices need to pick their fights.
Grosskopf and Mondak, ‘98
Anke (Assistant Prof of Political Science @ Long Island University) and Jeffrey (Professor of Political Science @ U of Illinois), 1998, “Do attitudes toward specific supreme court decisions matter? The impact of Webster and Texas v Johnson on Public Confidence in the Supreme Court” Political Research Quarterly, vol. 51 no 3 633-54
The existence of a strong link between basic values and diffuse support does not necessarily
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response to Supreme Court decisions affects institutional support may shape what answer we find.

Judicial capital is key to uphold the ban – otherwise Kennedy will vote switch and stick with precedent to preserve Court legitimacy.
Smith, PoliSci @Akron, 1992
Christopher E. Smith, Pol. Sci. @ Akron, Fall 1992 “SUPREME COURT SURPRISE: JUSTICE ANTHONY KENNEDY'S MOVE TOWARD MODERATION” 45 Okla. L. Rev. 459
There is, of course, no way to know with certainty why Justice Kennedy  made
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in the middle of the Supreme Court who can determine the out-  comes of cases when the Court is deeply divided. 

Abortion is a KEY LITMUS test for states rights – Supreme Court actions shape the lanscape
Maharrey 11 (Roe v Wade a Nullification Issue, Mike, 7/11, Mike Maharrey is a writer/staff member of the 10th Amendment Center, http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/07/11/roe-v-wade-a-nullification-issue/#.UiO0HdJwrgc)

“Abortion is murder.?”¶ “A woman has a right to choose.”¶ Few issues divide a room, a city
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its supersized nose into areas it has no business, it’s up to the states to reach out and smack that nose and keep it in its proper place.

Federalism solves heg
Nivola 10 (Pietro, The American Interest, “Rebalancing American Federalism”, March/April, http://www.the-american-interest.com/article-bd.cfm?piece=787)
Thinking along those lines warrants renewed emphasis today
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distracted government stands less chance of mitigating such tragedies

Heg solves war
Barnett 11 (Thomas P.M., Former Senior Strategic Researcher and Professor in the Warfare Analysis and Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College American military geostrategist and Chief Analyst at Wikistrat., worked as the Assistant for Strategic Futures in the Office of Force Transformation in the Department of Defense, “The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads,” March 7 http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads)
Events in Libya are a further reminder for Americans that we stand at a crossro
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of the 20th century, setting the stage for the Pacific Century now unfolding.

Tournament: Vandy | Round: 5 | Opponent: GSU | Judge:
Their use of security is articulated through gendered binaries—that requires domination and elimination of those who threaten the dominant masculine body politic
Wilcox 3 Lauren, PhD in IR @ University of Minnesota, BA @ Macalester College, MA @ London School of Economics, “Security Masculinity: The Gender-Security Nexus”, RCB
Post-structuralists emphasize not only the discursive
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against subordinate masculinities, such as racial minorities and non-heterosexual orientations.

The impact is Extinction
Warren and Cady 94—Warren is the Chair of the Philosophy Department at Macalester College and Cady is Professor of Philosophy at Hamline University (Karen and Duane, “Feminism and Peace: Seeing Connections”, p. 16, JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3810167.pdf)

Operationalized, the evidence of patriarchy as a dysfunctional system is found
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various woman-nature-peace connections in regional, national, and global contexts.

Patriarchy is the root cause of war
Workman 96 (Thom, Poli Sci @ U of New Brunswick, YCISS Paper no. 31, p. 7, January 1996, http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/publications/OP31-Workman.pdf)

The practices of war emerge within gendered understandings that inflect
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that the language of sexuality and war is seamless. 

Feminism is the only way to prevent great power wars- solves the root cause of masculine policies and unjust social hierarchies
Tickner 2001 J. Ann is a feminist international relations (IR) theorist. She is a professor at the School of International Relations, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.1 Her books include Gendering World Politics: Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War Era (Columbia University, 2001), Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving International Security (Columbia University, 1992) “Gendering World Politics: Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War Era” May http://www.ciaonet.org/book/tia01/index.html AK

Chapter 2 deals with war, peace, and security—issues that continue to be central
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terms that include the elimination of social hierarchies such as gender that lead to political and economic injustice.

Tournament: JMU | Round: Octas | Opponent: Vandy | Judge:
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 offensive cyber operations. The Department of Justice officials involved should counsel that the United States Federal Government, specifically Congress, should substantially increase statutory restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States by prohibiting the first use of destructive cyber operations against civilian networks.  The Executive Order should also require written publication of Office of Legal Counsel opinions.

Executive pre-commitment to DOJ advice solves the aff
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
The courts indisputably do not and cannot fully assure our enjoyment of our constitutional rights
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and thereby making clear that respect for constitutional rights is part of the executive's interest, not counter to it.

Tournament: JMU | Round: 2 | Opponent: GMU | Judge:
Gov shutdown

Tournament: Vandy | Round: 3 | Opponent: Indiana | Judge:
Pariah weapons regulation legitimizes militarism- labeling specific weapons as bad naturalizes others
Beier, 11 – McMaster University political science professor
J. Marshall, "Dangerous Terrain: Re-Reading the Landmines Ban through the Social Worlds of the RMA," Contemporary Security Policy, 32:1, April 2011, 159-175, accessed 9-12-13, mss
Although turned to a more progressive purpose, the rhetorical /discursive strategies of the landmine ban effect
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the fundamental values and ultimate objectives of activist and advocacy work in this important area.

Tournament: Vandy | Round: 3 | Opponent: Indiana | Judge:
Text: The United States federal government should appoint an Independent Reviewer of drone strike policy, modeled after the British Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation.
An Independent Reviewer solves accountability –
Bashir 12 (Omar S. Bashir 12, is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and a graduate of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, September 24th, 2012, "Who Watches the Drones?" Foreign Affairs,www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138141/omar-s-bashir/who-watches-the-drones)
At least one other country faced with a similar dilemma, though, has arrived at a different solution
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Only a government serious about its moral obligations would agree to such an arrangement, and that is part of its value.