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 — insisting that even if the nominee were mediocre, mediocre people deserved a little representation on the Court too.
Hint: The nominee went down to defeat weeks later, and the senator’s “defense” is remembered as one of the great self-inflicted wounds in confirmation history.
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