Sen. Ted Cruz and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin traded verbal blows in a fiery back-and-forth during the confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Wednesday, leading the Texas Republican to tell Durbin “you can bang” the gavel “as loud as you want.” As Cruz honed in on Jackson’s reasoning for sentencing child sex offenders near the end of his 20-minute period and called on her to answer his questions, Durbin banged the gavel to indicate his colleague’s time has expired.“You have taken over a minute of my time,” Cruz told Durbin (D-Ill.).
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