kangaroo court

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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

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

Over the weekend, the committee said his "kangaroo court" comments had impugned the integrity of Parliament.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2023

Put another way, even those who are hauled before a kangaroo court are sometimes guilty as charged.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

Seems to me he did say—back there in the saloon, when he was holdin' kangaroo court.

From Prairie Flowers by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)