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1. The Supreme Court isn’t perceived- the president and congress get credit for the agenda
Flemming. Professor of polisci at Texas A & M, 97-(Roy Flemming, American Journal of Political
Science, Vol. 41, Number 4, American Journal of Political Science)
Filtered by media coverage, there are reasons to expect that the Supreme Court has a weak
hand in moving issues onto the systemic agenda and holding them there. Media attention to
Court decisions is less intense and more irregular than attention to the presidency and
Congress . This means that the Court's concerns are unlikely to arouse the public to the same
degree as presidential pronouncements or congressional activities . It is also possible, as
Rosenberg argues, that the Court's voice regarding major controversies cannot be heard
over the rush of history . These reservations are an advantage to this research since the answer
to the question about the Court's influence over the systemic agenda is not preordained and the
issue remains problematic. In effect they establish the grounds for an initial null expectation that
no relationship exists between the Supreme Court's decisions and changes in issue attentiveness
by the media and system.
2. The plan isn’t perceived as a new action by the public – the CERD has already been ratified and
the plan is only removing the RUDs that are currently on it
3. Human Rights treaties are unpopular
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(Director of the Open Society Institute, “A Cry for Human Rights and the Law: A Review of Unpopular Cases
for Lawyers”, 8/7/04,
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/washington/articles_publications/articles/rickard_20040807/aba_rickard.pdf)
In the last 15 years , I have been involved in a number of unpopular causes. For instance, I
and many others within the human rights community argued that there needed to be some
minimal controls placed on using torturers as intelligence informants. But these and
similar notions about human rights – which were never very popular in some circles –
became much less so after 9/11. While the World Trade Center was still smoldering I watched
former Secretary of State James Baker explain on national television that the reason the attack
had succeeded was because liberals had imposed restrictions on who we could use as informants.
It would be several more days before I accepted the reality that my best man had in fact died in
the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center. But I was already being told, in
effect, that it was my fault.
4. Case Out Weighs – The impacts of ongoing alienation and the genocides as a result of low CERD
credibility are greater than a small risk of the DA impacts
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5. Non-Unique – The US signed a treaty to end discrimination against disabled individuals on July
30 th . That was a bigger deal than the plan.