SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's sentencing record questioned by GOP during tense exchanges

Republican senators continued their questioning of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's record, with questions particularly focused around her sentencing of those found guilty on child pornography charges.

During one heated exchange as Jackson tried to explain her decision-making process, Sen. Lindsey Graham interrupted her, prompting Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Dick Durbin to ask him to allow her to answer his questions. Sen. Ted Cruz also pushed her over her sentencing record, with Durbin at one point telling Brown Jackson that there was "no point in answering" as he was going to interrupt her.

Brown Jackson also said she planned to recuse herself from a Harvard affirmative action discrimination case before the nation's highest court if she were to be confirmed. This followed a question by Cruz on how she would handle the case as she sits on the school's board of overseers.

Senators also got into a debate on Tuesday's hearings in which Republicans cut off the highest-ranking member of their own party on the committee to state their annoyances with chairman Dick Durbin.

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