Judged unfit

Kudos to Republicans who control the Senate Judiciary Committee for putting down the rubber stamp — and rejecting two patently disqualified Trump nominees to lifetime appointments on the federal bench. Wednesday, Chairman Chuck Grassley nixed the nomination of Brett Talley and Jeff Mateer.

Talley was the epically unqualified horrorbook writer who had practiced law for three years and never tried a case. The American Bar Association deemed him “not qualified.”

And, oh, he happens to be married to the chief of staff of the White House counsel — a fact he did not disclose to the committee.

Mateer called transgender children evidence of “Satan’s plan” and defended a right to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.

Good riddance to both.

Add a third name to the trash heap: Wednesday, another Republican on the Judiciary Committee, Louisiana’s John Kennedy, patiently lobbed what should have been softballs at Matthew Spencer Petersen, a Federal Election Commission member tapped for a lifetime federal judgeship.

Petersen acknowledged never having made arguments in a courtroom.

Never having tried a case. Never having conducted a deposition on his own. Never having filed a motion in state or federal court. Not knowing rules of evidence and procedure that are basic knowledge for any second-year law student.

At one point, Petersen, exposed as being roughly as prepared as a man off the street, said: “I understand the challenge that would be ahead of me if I were to become a federal district judge.”

You don’t say.