seat of judgment

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"I do not sit in the seat of judgment... I love people for who they are. We're all God's children!"

From Fox News • Jan. 18, 2022

Judges, before whom witches were tried, were cautioned not to allow them to come near their persons nor the seat of judgment.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist

A block of sandstone in the park is called the “chiding stone,” tradition asserting it to be a prehistoric seat of judgment.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various

The University looked with disdain on popular theological conferences, where unlearned men even usurped the seat of judgment, and the Council found itself embarrassed between the friends of the old order and the new.

From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob

Grim, four-square, inert, his very way of sitting his chair, as though it were a seat of judgment and he the interpreter of some fierce blood-law, betrayed him.

From The Silent Places by White, Stewart Edward