WATCH: Sen. Ted Cruz questions Jackson in Supreme Court confirmation hearings

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questioned Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the Senate Judiciary Committee continued its Supreme Court confirmation hearings March 22. Cruz asked questions about Jackson’s knowledge of “critical race theory,” her sentencing in child pornography cases and a speech in which she mentioned New York Times’ journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project, a reporting project and initiative that explores slavery and its consequences as a foundational part of U.S. history. “It is not something I have studied, it does not come up in my work,” Jackson said. “I mentioned it because at least at that time it was talked about and well known to the students I was talking about at that law school.”