Judging in the Judiciary Committee

When Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota questioned Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Tuesday afternoon, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont proved they have something in common in addition to being members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Neither of them was in the hearing room.

Yet that did not necessarily make them outliers on the committee.

A number of senators on the committee did not stay in the room to personally witness Klobuchar's questioning of Jackson.

Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey were also out of the room. So, too, were Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Josh Hawley of Missouri and Tom Cotton of Arkansas.

Other senators on the committee departed from the proceedings while other colleagues were questioning Jackson.