It’s not often (if ever?) that the Atlanta Hawks feature in a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.  But that’s exactly what happened this week, when U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-MO, used what he thought was a trip to a Hawks game by former special prosecutor Jack Smith as a ‘gotcha’ moment to link him to Fulton County DA Fani Willis.  The problem?  Smith never went to an Atlanta Hawks game, and the “Hawks game” referenced in text messages referred to an Iowa Hawkeyes game Smith attended in Maryland.  Whoops!  The viral blunder has Schmitt SINKING…