{"id":161078,"date":"2026-08-20T15:13:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/20\/the-confirmation-speech-that-doomed-the-scotus-nominee-it-was-meant-to-save\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:13:52","slug":"the-confirmation-speech-that-doomed-the-scotus-nominee-it-was-meant-to-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/20\/the-confirmation-speech-that-doomed-the-scotus-nominee-it-was-meant-to-save\/","title":{"rendered":"The Confirmation Speech That Doomed The SCOTUS Nominee It Was Meant To Save"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A U.S. Senator from Nebraska took to the airwaves in 1970 to defend which Supreme Court nominee that critics had branded intellectually undistinguished? The strategy, such as it was, was to concede the point \u2014 insisting that even if the nominee were mediocre, mediocre people deserved a little representation on the Court too. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: The nominee went down to defeat weeks later, and the senator\u2019s \u201cdefense\u201d is remembered as one of the great self-inflicted wounds in confirmation history.<\/strong><br \/><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/08\/the-confirmation-speech-that-doomed-the-scotus-nominee-it-was-meant-to-save\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Confirmation Speech That Doomed The SCOTUS Nominee It Was Meant To Save<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/07\/Supreme-Court-artsy-300x210.jpg?resize=300%2C210&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A U.S. Senator from Nebraska took to the airwaves in 1970 to defend which Supreme Court nominee that critics had branded intellectually undistinguished? The strategy, such as it was, was to concede the point \u2014 insisting that even if the nominee were mediocre, mediocre people deserved a little representation on the Court too. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: The nominee went down to defeat weeks later, and the senator\u2019s \u201cdefense\u201d is remembered as one of the great self-inflicted wounds in confirmation history.<\/strong><br \/><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/08\/the-confirmation-speech-that-doomed-the-scotus-nominee-it-was-meant-to-save\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/08\/the-confirmation-speech-that-doomed-the-scotus-nominee-it-was-meant-to-save\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! A U.S. Senator from Nebraska took to the airwaves in 1970 to defend which Supreme Court nominee that critics had branded intellectually undistinguished? The strategy, such as it was, was to concede the point \u2014 insisting that even if the nominee were mediocre, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Supreme-Court-artsy-7OeYBw.jpg?fit=636%2C446&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}