unblemished name

"I mean that the wife of the first magistrate in the capital shall not, by her infamy, soil an unblemished name; that she shall not, with one blow, dishonor her husband and her child."

Those tactics resulted in a glorious victory - the smallest margin of confirmation for a high court nominee in 103 years; an Associate Justice who will sit for decades with neither an unblemished name nor the unstinting consent of the Senate.