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kangaroo court
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a kangaroo court
a court of law which is not official and which judges someone in an unfair way. A kangaroo court was set up by the strikers to deal with people who had refused to stop working.
See also: court


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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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