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kangaroo court
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kangaroo court
a bogus or illegal court. Is this a staff meeting or a kangaroo court? You have turned this interview into a kangaroo court.
See also: court, kangaroo


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This is a time of ID checks, invasive body searches, stacked juries, kangaroo courts, a corrupt political class, and a gray-suited police cadre known as the Homeland Security Special Forces.
But if you broaden your coalition, you can reach conservatives who don't like it when conditions are rigged like kangaroo courts.
These non-elected commissars are in existence due to the cowardice of elected politicians who have abdicated responsibility to these kangaroo courts.
 
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