rum court
n.— «Michael Ratner from the Centre for Constitutional Rights said: “The outcome has been predetermined when you go into one of these special, what I have to call, a kangaroo hearing, CSRT (Combatant Status Review Tribunal), you already have been determined to be a, quote, ‘enemy combatant.’ All this, what I call a ‘rum court,’ ‘rum secret court’ does is confirm that finding.”» —“Guantanamo: what does the future hold for its inmates?” EuroNews Mar. 29, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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