Day 3 Counterplans Topicality Online Winter Camp 2018

Day 3 Counterplans + Topicality Online Winter Camp 2018 Lecturer: Xavier Roberts-Gaal

Overview • Objectives • Counterplans • Meta recap • Reform/Advantage CPs • PICs • Common PICs • Unique PICs • PIC Strategies: Aff/Neg • Topicality/Topical Theory • Topicality/spec • Common interps • Going for T • Against policy/phil • Against the K • Answering spec

Objectives You’ll be able to… 1. Prep and answer the topic’s common and unique CPs and PICs 2. Practice deploying these CPs and PICs as part of a layered NC strategy 3. Prep and execute bidirectional topicality shells 4. Prep and execute both sides of spec debates on the topic

Counterplans 1 – Meta Recap • Reform CPs • Advantage CPs • End Wo. D • DAs become PICs • • Impeachment Child abuse Cartels/immigration Terror … s n o i t c e j o Pr form CPs Re f PICs New ific prep ec p s e r o M

Counterplans 2 – Reform/Advantage CPs • Laundry list of reforms • Less common – restrictions, simplify jury trial [voir dire], bench trials, diversion programs • More accountable – discovery, plea juries, judicial involvement, schedule sentence reductions • Common advantage CPs • • War on drugs New ideas? • Strategy thoughts

Counterplans 3 – PICs • Common PICs • • Impeachment Child abuse Immigration Terror • Unique PICs • • Death penalty Diversion programs – disability, addiction, nonviolent offenses [drug crimes]

Spotlight: Immigration PIC • Cites: • Cade, Jason A. "The Plea-Bargain Crisis for Noncitizens in Misdemeanor Court. " Cardozo L. Rev. 34 (2012): 1751. • Kalhan, Anil. "Rethinking immigration detention. " Colum. L. Rev. Sidebar 110 (2010): 42. • Casing • Strategy • • Weighing How to answer?

Counterplans 4 – PIC Strategies • FW + PIC • • Hard cases – death penalty + FW • AFF ANSWERS? • Diversion programs • PIK • Immigrant reps • Process/Delay CP • Politics + Delay • Theory • Fairness – scoops the aff, predictability • Education – too narrow a debate, prep internal links • PIC must have solvency advocate Substance • FW/K leverage v. the PIC?

Topicality 1 – T/Spec Interps • • Federal v. State courts Abolish = all T must be topical Aspec • How to write a spec shell – template • Kinds of plea deals – fact v. sentence bargaining etc.

Topicality 2 – Strategies • Going for T • • v. Policy/FW • Voter section • Collapse to one or two fairness/education arguments, then weigh v. K • Limits • Fairness • Answering Spec