The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, said President Trump’s judicial nominee Jeff Mateer will not be confirmed for a federal lifetime judgeship. Mateer is a lawyer for the state of Texas and a right-wing religious extremist who has called transgender children evidence of “Satan’s plan.” Senator Grassley also said a second Trump judicial nominee, Brett Talley, will not be confirmed. Talley is a blogger who has never argued a case in federal court in his life. He was rated “unanimously unqualified” for the post by the American Bar Association.
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