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kangaroo court

NOUN
unauthorized court
Synonyms


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It didn’t help that her husband—who’d known Hoxha when the two men were students together in Paris—was found guilty by a kangaroo court of plotting to overthrow the government.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

The court was urged to take into consideration that Mr McGregor had posted a series of social media posts after the verdict, in which he described the court as a "kangaroo court".

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2024

Yegiazaryan was convicted of criminal fraud in absentia in Moscow in 2018 in the mall dispute and sentenced to seven years in a penal colony — a proceeding he characterizes as a kangaroo court.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023

“Students of American history will now be able to read the last chapter and see that what was done to Oppenheimer in that kangaroo court proceeding was not the last word.”

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2022

At this time they were holding "kangaroo" court in the New Orleans jail.

From The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it by Davis, James J. (James John)




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