(The questions are often more 'culture war' oriented than having to do with judicial qualifications. Republicans ask questions designed to air on Fox News, more then are actually qualification relevant.)

(CNN)Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson could make history as the first Black female Supreme Court justice but some Senate Republicans with their eyes on higher political office are making her confirmation hearing all about them.

"Do you agree ... that babies are racist?" Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas asked Jackson at one point on Tuesday, as he mined books in the curriculum of her children's school in a made-for-conservative-TV grilling on cultural war issues that power Republican politics.

Nothing in Jackson's second day before the Senate Judiciary Committee suggested her nomination is in difficulty, given the narrow Democratic majority in the full chamber. But while they probably can't stop her taking a seat on the high court, some Republicans tried to turn her into a caricature of President Joe Biden's policies ahead of midterm elections in November and their own possible future White House bids.