Sentences with phrase «kangaroo courts»
«Unchain the Children:» Gault, Therapeutic Jurisprudence, and Shackling, Symposium: Forty Years After In Re Gault: Do Kangaroo Courts Still Rule?
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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!
The modern requirement to have a complaints procedure is not a mandate to set up kangaroo courts.
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.»
The ICAC hearings are tantamount to kangaroo courts, and penalties are imposed directly by state legislation.
So if the kid was given a fair hearing in the University kangaroo courts, I am still trying to figure out when that was..........
It is common knowledge that even when trials are conducted, biased or kangaroo courts can often render unjust convictions.
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?».
It's no wonder that so many call these proceedings «kangaroo courts.
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.
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...
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.»
My husband stormed out of his court telling him he was another despot, and ran a kangaroo court that rigged the decision any way his father and his friends wanted.
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.
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.
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.
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.»
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.»
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Mychal Bell, 17, the first of the classmates to go on trial, was quickly convicted in a kangaroo court by an all - white jury presided over by a white judge in less than three hours.
What a kangaroo court!
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».
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.
Any governmental «science court» would be nothing more than a rubber stamp for the politicians in power, more like a kangaroo court most likely.
But the report makes clear that the committee conducted Lindzen's interview in the finest traditions of a kangaroo court.
Zong filed for arbitration, too, with the Hangzhou Arbitration Commission, the kangaroo court in his hometown.
The incident started back in December 2006, when a trial judge remarked, on the record, during a criminal sentencing proceeding, «You can't offend the kangaroos up there in kangaroo court.»
Main Appellate Court Hopping Mad Over Reference to a 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?»
That «court» has been widely criticized by jurists around the world as little more than a kangaroo court in the service of a government owned and run by big - business plutocrats.
«Kangaroo court» decides MPs broke rules with mass mailing, NDP could have to pay back millions in tax dollars, The National Post
And you can imagine, somebody could build a digital kangaroo court, where they collect information from one party and assure them that it's going to be confidential, and then secretly they hand it to the other side.
Nathan Whitling, one of Khadr's lawyers, has referred to the Military Commissions as «kangaroo court [s].»
● Jury Smacks Down Kangaroo Court in Bundy Trial ● Federal Judge Upholds Anti-Free Speech Order ● Ed Forchion Denied Pretrial Release
A bag of wind (1878) · A blatherskite (1890) · A cowardly slanderer and a bully (1907) · A dim - witted saboteur (1956) · A parliamentary babe and suckling (1890) · A parliamentary pugilist and political bully (1875) · A servile follower of the government (1878) · A trickster (1919) · Above the truth (1962) · Abusing his position in the House (1877) · Ass (1970) · Attempted to misrepresent (1961) · Attempting to distort the facts as he had in the past (1956) · B and B gang (1964) · Bullshit (1973) · Canadian Mussolini (1964) · Cheap political way (1960) · Coming into the world by accident (1886) · Crook (1971) · Deceive (1977) · Deceived (1960) · Deliberate distortion (1968) · Deliberate falsehood (1961) · Deliberate malignity (1962) · Deliberately deceived (1960) · Deliberately distorted (1972) · Deliberately misleading (1977) · Deliberately misled (1959) · Deliberately misstated the truth (1960) · Deliberately trying to pervert (1960) · Demagogue (1963) · Devoid of honour (1960) · Dictatorial attitude (1961) · Disgracing the House (1896) · Dishonest (1959) · Dishonest answers (1968) · Dishonest insinuations (1960) · Dishonest performance (1960) · Does not have a spine (1971) · Evil genius (1962) · Fabricated a statement (1961) · Fabrication (1959) · False (1961) · False representations (1975) · False statement (1961) · Falsehood (1976) · Falsify (1964) · Fraud (1960) · Fraudulent character (1962) · Grovelling in the dirt in order to get an office (1900) · Has not got the guts (1959) · Honourable only by courtesy (1880) · Hypocrites (1961) · Hypocritical (1961) · Hysterical (1943) · Idiot (1962) · Ignoramus (1961) · Illegal (1977) · Illegal (actions)(1976) · Insolent and impertinent (1890) · Insolent and irresponsible reply (1962) · Inspired by forty - rod whiskey (1881) · Intentional deceit (1961) · Irresponsible Members (1969) · Irresponsible reply (1962) · Joker in this House (1960) · Kangaroo court (1960) · Lacking in intelligence (1934) · Lie (1959) · Lies (1976) · Living politically by deceit (1899) · Members have aligned themselves with the murderers in Quebec (1970) · Mislead (1958) · Misleading the public (1960) · Misrepresenting his constituency (1909) · Nazi (1962) · Nefarious (1960) · Not telling the complete truth (1964) · Not telling the truth (1960) · Obstruct the operation of government (1957) · Obstructionist (1961) · Offensive (1964) · Pompous Ass (1967) · Reneged promises (1962) · Scarcely entitled to be called gentlemen (1876) · Scurrilous (1961) · Seeking cheap notoriety (1919) · Shameful conduct (1960) · Sick animal (1966) · Silly reason (1961) · Sitting for his constituency by the grace of the leader of the Government (1884) · Slanderous accusations (1960) · Small and cheap (1960) · Stealing (1960) · Stooping to pretty low motives (1956) · Talking twaddle (1898) · The political sewer pipe from Carleton County (1917) · Theft (1960) · To hell with Parliament attitude (1961) · Trained seal (1961) · Treason (1957) · Trickery (1959) · Underhanded (1961) · Untrue statement (1961) · Violated his oath (1967) · Wilfully misled (1970)
The summer camps have camp fire stories and songs, swimming, kangaroo court and even a climbing wall, high rope course and a giant swing — all fully accessible to kids with disabilities.
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.
Not exact matches
According to him, this time, the plotters of the plan to procure the services of a compromised or malleable judge to get self - serving «jankara» and kangaroo judgment with the intention of having the Supreme Court reverse itself on the June, 2014 Ekiti election.
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