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Recent Examples of court-martial
Quornelius Radford, 28, is scheduled to appear in a courtroom at Fort Stewart a week after Army prosecutors referred his case to a general court-martial, which handles cases involving the most serious crimes under military law.
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CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
But in a court-martial, a service member who argues that an order is unlawful has the burden of proving its unlawfulness.
—Joshua Kastenberg, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2025
Hegseth announced via social media that Kelly could face court-martial proceedings—a public threat before any formal investigation.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
The witness testimony that wasn’t allowed in Leavenworth County court was admitted into the court-martial, per Stars and Stripes.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 10 Nov. 2025
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CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
But in a court-martial, a service member who argues that an order is unlawful has the burden of proving its unlawfulness.
—Joshua Kastenberg, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2025
Hegseth announced via social media that Kelly could face court-martial proceedings—a public threat before any formal investigation.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
The witness testimony that wasn’t allowed in Leavenworth County court was admitted into the court-martial, per Stars and Stripes.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 10 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for court-martial
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And men like Lang Long, a Cambodian who was trafficked and sold into the Thai fishing industry, are modern-day Billy Budds in a system that lacks even the rough justice of a drumhead court-martial.—
Alyssa Rosenberg,
Washington Post,
12 Sep. 2019
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In 2004, the supreme court of Canada ruled that the government had a duty to consult and accommodate Indigenous people anywhere that aboriginal title existed, or might later be found to exist.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
27 Dec. 2025
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Yet the state’s supreme court struck it down as unconstitutional under New Jersey’s own 1776 constitution, an early precursor to the federal Bill of Rights.—
Time,
Time,
17 Dec. 2025
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On Saturday, Venezuela’s high court ordered her to assume the role of interim president, and the leader was backed by Venezuela’s military.—
Megan Janetsky,
Fortune,
5 Jan. 2026
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The high court’s denials attest to the fact that the city is not above the state’s environmental law, Everett DeLano, a lawyer representing plaintiff Save Our Access, told the Union-Tribune on Monday.—
Jennifer Van Grove,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Jan. 2026
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Fear, devotion, inquisition, obsession, admiration – all attention is good attention.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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As decent people resign, they’re replaced with people eager or at least willing to participate in Trump’s partisan inquisition.—
David French,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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Kinda like all that Canton surveillance video in 2022 that would have spared Karen Read the burden of having to go through those two trials in the kangaroo court.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
20 Aug. 2025
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Chandler complained about her treatment at trial, calling it a kangaroo court.—
Ruth Chenetz,
CBS News,
31 May 2025
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Twice, the administration appealed, contending that the judiciary had usurped Congress's spending power by directing the executive branch to find the money.—
James Sample,
ABC News,
8 Nov. 2025
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Pezeshkian doesn’t control the judiciary, the security forces, or the Center for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, which is tasked with pushing women to wear hijab (its leaders are appointed by the Friday prayer leaders’ council, whose members are in turn appointed by Khamenei).—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
7 Nov. 2025
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That September, Guzmán and his companion, Elena Iparraguirre, were captured in Lima; a secret military tribunal sentenced them to life in prison, but the fighting went on.—
Paul Elie,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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An international arbitral tribunal ruled in 2016 that Beijing's sweeping claims had no basis under international law, a decision China rejects.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
13 Dec. 2025
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“Court-martial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/court-martial. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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