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

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)

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

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

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