For the past few years, thousands of people in New Jersey couldn’t get a divorce, see their kids, win a restraining order or get compensated for crushing medical bills, all because there weren’t enough trial judges. Gov. Phil Murphy failed to make sufficient nominations and lawmakers refused to confirm the new appointments, despite a catastrophic backlog of cases. It got so bad that the chief justice of our Supreme Court, Stuart Rabner, had to temporarily suspend family and civil trials in counties across the state. All of which makes us wonder: Why is the dysfunctional Senate now trying to ta…