Supreme Kangaroo Court
English
editEtymology
editBlend of Supreme Court + kangaroo court.
Proper noun
edit- (humorous, derogatory) Supreme Court
- (US, humorous, derogatory) Supreme Court (the highest Federal court of the United States, ("the Supreme 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.*
- (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).
- 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.