Marriage can only take place between consenting individuals. Children can't consent, so they can't get married. In some cases parents are allowed to consent for their children, so there might be some space to argue about whether arranged marriages of pre-adults are kosher. Personally I'm a bit skeptical, but that's a matter for public debate.

Perhaps, but that's not what is happening in this case. The equal protection clause was specifically designed for cases like this where a minority group is given less rights than everyone else.

Not in any way that makes a difference, the rest is just details of various bureaucracies most of which shouldn't be involved in the first place.

All forms of group marriage should be legal as well, as should time limited marriages and any other variants people want to come up with. The governments only legitimate role in marriage is as the enforcer of contracts.

Hardly activism to support the equal protection clause.

So of course there will be a small factory where humans apply the "Made by a Human" sticker to products that were made by robots but since humans "completed" the process it counts.

If stated in those terms then the correct course would have been to execute the buggy code and let the developers come out with a patch when they realized how painful it is to the customer.

Frankly I think it would be hilarious to watch the Republicans fall on their own sword over this one. The public would expect them to create a reasonable legislative fix in short order and frankly I think they're just not capable of that level of governance right now. At the moment they're all breathing a private sigh of relief, especially since the majority of pain would have been felt in the red states that refused to set up an exchange.

It was supposed to be funny rather than paranoid. I mean who would take the idea of a Dutch empire seriously right now?

So the police attempt to carry out the order, the Dutch parliament fights back by using the military to seize control. Recognizing the emergency nature of the situation they quickly pass a new law empowering a small "council for citizens safety" to make quick decisions. The council declares martial law and throws all of the Judges and activists in prison as "enemies of the state". With power consolidated and internal dissent quelled they surprise the world by launching an invasion of Belgium beginning with a night attack on Antwerp by elements of the 11th Airmobile Brigade swiftly followed up 13th Motorized and 43rd Mechanized in a lightning pincer maneuver on Brussels. Cut off and surrounded without access to their heavy weapons the Belgian forces quickly surrender. Emboldened by this move right wing forces rally to the Dutch cause and European countries fall like dominoes as the new Dutch empire rises out of the ashes.

Glad to finally have a like minded neighbor Russia offers an alliance which ends up incorporating the Chinese as well as they can see which way the wind is blowing. In a panic over the growing might of the tripartite pact the US launches a nuclear first strike hoping to catch the opposing forces unprepared. US missiles prove far more accurate than anyone expected and flatten the majority of their targets but even the limited retaliatory strike leaves Washington D.C., New York & L.A. as smoking craters and over a hundred million dead stateside.

Governments collapse worldwide as supply chains are stretched beyond their limits. The trucks stop rolling and grocery stores empty. As the food runs out civil order breaks down into mass violence. Over the next six months ninety percent of humanity starves to death and the rest are left to fight wars over cans of dog food in the blasted wastelands. All the dust kicked up by the nuclear exchange creates a cooling effect that cancels out global warming and the lack of working industry means CO2 emissions are way down, so it looks like the activists get their way after all even if none of them are still alive to see it.

Hold the members of government in contempt and jail them for failing to follow a court order?

Lack of negotiating leverage for the most part. If you're a special snowflake you can negotiate acceptable terms, for everyone else it's pretty much take it or leave it.

Only because it would mean a failure by our counter intelligence unit. Their being "outraged" is nothing more than public theater.

You're right. People don't understand numbers. The flashy stories say that nuclear power is doom incarnate but when you look at the statistics it's better by nearly every measure. I agree that people aren't likely to change their minds on this issue despite the fact that coal plants are worse in nearly every way.

Stuff in this context is other methods of generating energy. Natural Gas is the cleanest fossil fuel, but all other forms of energy generation are cleaner than fossil fuels. Don't misunderstand, I think we should be using a lot of it right now as a strategy to stop using coal, which is horrible by any measure except extraction cost.

Well, it's better than coal but worse than just about everything else.