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

In a few minutes they reappeared, escorting the individuals who had caused all these solemn preparations towards the seat of judgment.

From The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore

Had this been their employment instead of being seated on the seat of judgment twenty years ago, I might have been more fortunate. 

From The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2 by Holcroft, Thomas

When the judge of the district ascertained his haunt, he ordered the forest to be surrounded, and the soldier to be seized, and brought bound to the seat of judgment.

From Mediaeval Tales by Morley, Henry

Further he was to be publicly deposed from his office, expelled from his seat of judgment, kussû daianûtišu, and no longer be permitted to sit with the judges.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)