Sentences with phrase «kangaroo court»

● Jury Smacks Down Kangaroo Court in Bundy Trial ● Federal Judge Upholds Anti-Free Speech Order ● Ed Forchion Denied Pretrial Release

In Femi Olatunbosun's kangaroo court of hate and prejudice, the former Vice President is guilty for allowing the new Senate President, Bukola Saraki to visit him.

Someone that reads this maybe a few years from now might snap out of it and think «My God, these people are advocating for kangaroo courts and witch hunts and they don't even realize it?».

He refused the conditions of the bond and was subsequently jailed because the local authorities, under the auspi - ces of a hastily - convened kangaroo court, declared him a potential hazard to the community.

Wisniewski believes that the league, by levying unwarranted fines, was mostly responsible for creating his image, and that the appeals process was «an absolute kangaroo court.»

So if the kid was given a fair hearing in the University kangaroo courts, I am still trying to figure out when that was..........

In addressing members of Parliament and journalists in London, Lancman said «all of us are threatened» when «American journalists and authors can be hauled into kangaroo courts on phoney - baloney libel charges in overseas jurisdictions who don't share our belief in freedom of speech or a free press.»

Maybe Kangaroo court is its more appropriate name, because it is clear to even me that the whole process is just being casually strung along so that those being paid to harass and frustrate my situation give good value for money.

President Obama's science advisor, John Holdren, excoriated proponents of the idea in a recent Boston Globe op - ed, «The perversity of the climate science kangaroo court».

«What,» he then asks, «is the legal justification for this argument that kangaroo court military hearings are an adequate replacement for real judicial hearings in a real court?»

On the international law scene, I revealed that Australia had real kangaroo courts — in which rogue kangaroos were placed on trial for punching people and stealing objects by putting them in their pouches!

Nathan Whitling, one of Khadr's lawyers, has referred to the Military Commissions as «kangaroo court [s].»

«Unchain the Children:» Gault, Therapeutic Jurisprudence, and Shackling, Symposium: Forty Years After In Re Gault: Do Kangaroo Courts Still Rule?

The prehearing was nothing short of a joke — kangaroo court comes to mind — and the initial fines that were proposed were so outrageous they left no choice but to go to a hearing.

Gülen knows that detention without trial or a kangaroo court are awaiting him in Turkey, and so it seems impossible that he could be lured into returning there voluntarily.

It's no wonder that so many call these proceedings «kangaroo courts.

It is common knowledge that even when trials are conducted, biased or kangaroo courts can often render unjust convictions.

It's a few days after your leader has been captured, roughed up by the jail keepers, tried in a kangaroo court, and then (to employ the currently favorite CIA euphemism) «neutralized.»

It is ironic that this bypassing of the regular government, with the Orwellian title of the National Security Management System, is practiced by «Botha's Nationalists in a sort of mirror image of the black ANC and other anti-apartheid groups, who are delegitimizing the official local black town councils and setting up what the government selectively brands «kangaroo courts.»

Later, this same official is questioned in the midst of a kangaroo court and she gives an emotional recounting of her experience at the Pentagon on September 11th, and the thousands of terrorist attacks her methods have prevented since then.

What we've seen here is kidnapping, now followed by a kangaroo court.

Yellow Tail and Constellation off to Kangaroo Court: Aussie vintners hope a Canadian wine company will roo the day it allegedly used a logo featuring Australia's favourite marsupial...

It is Blyleven who runs around the clubhouse with matches giving hotfoots, and who dons a mop wig and a judge's robe to levy fines in the Angels» kangaroo court.

Kellner in an emailed statement to reporters blasted Silver, saying the ruling by Levine proved the Assembly Ethics Committee's review of the harassment case shwed it was «nothing more then a kangaroo court doing Speaker Silver's bidding.»

(Prolonged laughter) Are you talking about the Kangaroo court that (Odigie --RRB- Oyegun has put in place?

At a rally to support the legislation held in front of City Hall on April 16, Quinn compared the RGB to a «kangaroo court» because its decisions seemed to be preordained.

The ICAC hearings are tantamount to kangaroo courts, and penalties are imposed directly by state legislation.

Frank described the panel as a «Kangaroo court» set up purposely to suspend him to pave the way for further illegalities by a handful of members of the Chief John Odigie - Oyegun - led National Working Committee.

How can a writer without credibility take the moral high ground and judge former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in his Kangaroo Court of hate and prejudice?

«Through the committee process, if we find attorney or special counsel that has ties with the county executive or the legislature, then the entire process is a kangaroo court and would be moot.»

Throughout the process, Johnson has said he is falsely accused, calling the closed hearings a «witch hunt,» «kangaroo court» and «public assassination of my character.»

Or will ECOWAS wait to see the reaction from the Gambian people after the kangaroo court issues its verdict?

Sanford told reporters that apparent efforts by some South Carolina lawmakers to obtain and use a preliminary report by a state ethics panel as the basis for impeachment would create a «kangaroo court.»

«By putting the fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the hands of former oil industry lobbyist David Bernhardt, Secretary Zinke has made clear that this rushed environmental review process will be nothing more than a kangaroo court,» Matt Lee - Ashley, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., said in a statement.

What a kangaroo court!

Star Chamber or Kangaroo Court — take your pick.

Holdren calls the proposal a «perversity» of the original intent leading to a «kangaroo court» for ulterior - motivated stone - throwers intent on obfuscating consensus science regarding the serious threat climate change poses.

But the report makes clear that the committee conducted Lindzen's interview in the finest traditions of a kangaroo court.

If the review is simply a back and forth, as has been suggested by Steve Koonin, there is little chance that the process will have the buy - in of the science community and the administration, and it would risk looking like a kangaroo court to the public (or the 21st century version of the Scope's Monkey Trial).

Zong filed for arbitration, too, with the Hangzhou Arbitration Commission, the kangaroo court in his hometown.