Supreme Kangaroo Court

English

Etymology

Blend of Supreme Court +‎ kangaroo court.

Proper noun

Supreme Kangaroo Court

1. (humorous, derogatory) Supreme Court
   • 2000 March 6, Greg Mossman, “Specialty Classes”, in rec.scuba‎^[1] (Usenet):

     > Do you have actual cases to site that foreigners have been executed for
     > possession?
     Yes, 323 MSKCR (Malaysia Supreme Kangaroo Court Reports) 65 is the cite I
     remember.

   • 2009 March 8, Will Spencer, “Knighthoods Are Back”, in nz.general‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Can we also have the Privy Council back?
     It's got to be better than that incestuous back scratching Supreme Kangaroo
     Court.

   • 2018 September 18, te...@tiglath.net, “Murder, Theft, and Robbery Again”, in soc.history.medieval‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Israel's Supreme Kangaroo Court has green-lighted the demolition of a
     Palestinian village in the West Bank.
     Just like that.
     Might is right.

   1. (US, humorous, derogatory) Supreme Court (the highest Federal court of the United States, ("the Supreme Court")).
      • 2004 June 29, gk1, “Bush is Good!”, in alt.sport‎^[4] (Usenet):

        how can we re-elect him when he wasn't elected in the first place?
        the man was appointed our Emperor by the Supreme Kangaroo Court (or,
        as some may call them, the Imperial Appointers).

      • 2006 April 4, stoney, “Photographer fired for being an ethical christian!”, in alt.atheism‎^[5] (Usenet):

        It wouldn't surprise me to learn Scalia had the man fired in exchange
        for possible leinancy^[sic] if a church case comes before the US Supreme
        Kangaroo Court.

      • 2009 August 14, Prez, “A Day in the Life: 8/8/9”, in misc.activism.progressive‎^[6] (Usenet):

        We are a nation of laws and legal
        precedents. You don't throw out hundreds of years of legal precedent
        by subordinating secured bondholders to unsecured creditors, all with
        the blessing of our Supreme Kangaroo Court and its nine numbskulls,
        who are appropriately dressed like Darth Vader, and then expect any
        other nation in the world to take you seriously.

      • 2011 April 1, Rubin Carter, The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472‎^[7], Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 160:

        Prison Is a Place Called Hell Trenton State Prison is a nasty, stinking, medieval cubbyhole that was built in 1849 for noncitizens and mules, eight years before the Supreme Kangaroo Court under Chief Racist Taney declared the black man in American should not be considered a citizen of these United States.*

   2. (US, humorous, derogatory) Supreme Court (the state court in many states of the United States, usually but not necessarily the highest court in that state).
      • 1899, The Deke Quarterly‎^[8], volumes 17-18, →LCCN, page 101:

        […] ; McFarland, God keep his memory green, Judge of the Supreme Kangaroo Court and Stock, its inimitable prosecuting attorney, and Davy Montgomery, the glorious, whose nature shone with full-orbed sunshine, bounteous as the summer, […]

      • 2000 November 28, Paul, “! Gore's Monday Speech (interpreted) !”, in alt.politics.bush‎^[9] (Usenet):

        Lawsuit after lawsuit has been filed to delay the
        certification and to stop the certifying for many precious days between
        Election day and the shifting, imaginary deadline for having the count
        finished that has been re-legislated by the Supreme Kangaroo court of the
        Banana Republic of Florida.

      • 2002 May 4, Dave Simpson, “Europe leads the Intenational boycott against Israel”, in soc.culture.israel‎^[10] (Usenet):

        Not only that, but even that charge is a lie. The U.S. Supreme
        Court put a stop to nonsense behavior coupled with an obvious attempt
        to steal the election by the Democrats after it was lost, aided and
        abetted by a truly partisan and incorrectly-behaving Florida State
        Supreme Kangaroo Court.

      • 2004 January 16, Thos. Jefferson, “The People's Voice (PV pipeline)”, in alt.humor.jewish‎^[11] (Usenet):

        The Florida Supreme Kangaroo Court?
        Couldn't get what you wanted with the leftie lackeys there?
        Maturity had to step in.
        Sorry, 60's hippies!
        Time you grew up a little tad, dontcha think?

See also

• Injustice