What is "kangaroo courts"

Usage examples of "kangaroo courts".

Three years and they've got block wardens and kangaroo courts again.

But they were saying he made Amanda do itand he'd never heard of any charge as crazy as that, not even in the kangaroo courts of Iran and Iraq.

But they were saying he made Amanda do it -- and he'd never heard of any charge as crazy as that, not even in the kangaroo courts of Iran and Iraq.

I won't deliberately hand over counterfeits, thought the cadet, still annoyed at the absurd Federation treaty chain that recognized the kangaroo courts of the Ferengi.

I oppose the creation of kangaroo courts whose only possible verdict can be death.

Of the way the judge would slam that ball onto the bench, to regain what passed for order in the kangaroo courts the Klingons held.

More than a generation after the end of the war, there were still places where local warlords were employing drug warriors and kangaroo courts to maintain control over their citizens.

There will be talk of kangaroo courts, star chamber hearings, that sort of thing.