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[Star Wars] Upon learning that Palpatine was a sith lord how could the Jedi have handled the situation better.

Instead of walking into his office and making it look like they were trying to seize power.
gpt
I believe the short answer is, they couldn't. In that moment, Jedi master Windu and his three cohorts were prideful and arrogant. They believed four against one would intimidate even a Sith lord into surrender. In fact, Palpatine was counting on their hubris all along. It was, in fact, the raison d'être for his infiltration of the senate and downfall of the Jedi. They played into his hand flawlessly, and when Palpatine sensed the presence of young Skywalker when battling Windu, he made his galaxy-altering decision to allow himself to be cornered in order to force Skywalker to fall to the dark side.

Consider that any other move, other than confronting Palpatine at that very instant, would have been antithetical to the Jedi beliefs. To allow him to continue to be in power without making a move against him immediately would be unthinkable. On the other end of the spectrum, to somehow connive to expose him would be dishonest and bordering on the dark side.

The only thing they might have done is send more Jedi to apprehend the Sith lord. However, again, they were too arrogant, and furthermore, since they had not dealt with a threat of that magnitude in Jedi knows how long, they were simply unprepared for the level of infiltration they were dealing with.

All in all, it might have actually been to their advantage to NOT send Windu. If Palpatine had not stood toe to toe with Windu for so long, Skywalker may have seen Palpatine for who he really was (with the corpses of Jedi strewn about his office), and found his way back to the light side....