sit in judgment

Trump also argues that, according to the Constitution, “federal courts cannot sit in judgment directly over the President’s official acts.”

Dr. Stockmann is clearly identified with Ibsen as an intrepid truth-teller, but one of the playwright’s central tenets is that a writer must “sit in judgment on oneself.”

This includes not only whether they should be protected from workplace harassment and whether, as Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern notes, religious people should “sit in judgment of a person whose very identity they view as sinful,” but also and most importantly whether gays and lesbians should retain the right to marry members of the same sex.

He would, in essence, grant special rights to people whose faith dictates bigotry, allowing them to sit in judgment of a person whose very identity they view as sinful.

Now, with the appeals court ruling — which is so powerful and obviously right that it is certain to be upheld by the conservative, but not clueless, Supreme Court — Trump will have to face a jury that will sit in judgment of the actions he took to subvert an election.