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

But p. 2can anybody doubt that this abdication of the seat of judgment by large numbers of people is most hurtful to mankind? 

From Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses by Smith, Horace

At the Wicklow assizes of that spring, he, from the seat of judgment, set forth with great strength of language the miserable state of the country.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Hence their celebrated schools at Babylon and Tiberias,—the source of all legislation, and the seat of judgment in all cases of doubtful opinion.

From Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Russell, Michael

The question was, how to get Mr. Hastings, the interpreter, out of his interpretation, and to put him upon the seat of judgment.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund