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Except that it is not governmental authority.Even a quick lawsuit typically takes months or years in the US legal system. If the Youth Guard filed a lawsuit about Vista on her 14th birthday, she could easily be old enough to buy distilled alcohol before it was resolved.
That's why a consent decree is the most likely form for the Youth Guard's relationship to PRT, Protectorate and Wards, and what they would have aimed for in their lawsuits. Anything less would be useless for their purposes.
With a consent decree that places them in a role akin to Child Protective Services specific to the Wards, something that is well within the authority of a federal judge to do, they would be able to act to protect Wards in a timely manner, and that is governmental authority over the Protectorate and PRT, just limited to their dealings with Wards.
Because it's not actually granted by a governmental body.
It's activists and lawyers and people with too much time on their hands.
They've managed to finagle the ability to dictate certain things to the PRT, but they do not have governmental authority.
Also, they're not akin to CPS, because CPS is a governmental body.
If someone managed to bring a lawsuit against Youth Guard and pulled it off, YG would dissolve and lose all its capability.
That doesn't happen to organisations with governmental authority. Because you can't dissolve a government body with a lawsuit.