: an impressive facade or show designed to hide an undesirable fact or condition.

What is the word Potemkin mean?

In response to the man's actions, Potemkin has become an adjective meaning something that is fraudulent or counterfeit. Originally used in the phrase “Potemkin Village” it described a fake settlement, built only to impress.

What is a Potemkin court?

n. Something that appears elaborate and impressive but in actual fact lacks substance: "the Potemkin village of this country's borrowed prosperity" (Lewis H. Lapham). [After Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkinwho is said to have had elaborate fake villages constructed for Catherine the Great's tours of Ukraine and Crimea.]