Continuing the slog through NSDA's 2017-2018 potential resolutions, we get to Resolved: Plea bargaining ought to be abolished in the United States criminal justice system.
In November/December 2007, LDers debated Resolved: In the United States, plea-bargaining in exchange for testimony is unjust. In January 2011, public forum debaters debated Resolved: In the United States, plea bargaining undermines the criminal justice system. If memory serves both resolutions had a shared outcome; college student judges, all of whom had certainly achieved the age of majority, developed drinking games based on the number of times they heard the term "court clog" during the rounds they judged. I expect new versions of that game to be developed should this resolution get picked,
This is a solid resolution that allows debaters to run both pragmatic and philosophical arguments. The issues are substantive, but the issue argumentation he arguments may get a bit stale after a month. More importantly, this version does seem a bit too broad and may leave affirmatives in a bind. Abolishing all plea bargaining is a far different proposition than arguing it's a necessary evil.
Rankings and voting recommendations will follow the final post on the potential 2017 topics.
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