Highlights from Senate vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson

Judge Jackson’s family members showed their support again on the second day of her confirmation hearings with their steady presence inside the hearing room as she fielded, at times, contentious questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Jackson’s husband, Patrick, a general surgeon, was again seated behind Jackson. Photographers snapped photos of him sporting Benjamin Franklin-themed socks and jotting down notes during the morning session.

Jackson’s parents, Johnny and Ellery Brown, were also in the audience, near two seats reserved for Jackson's daughters, Talia, 21, and Leila, 17. Leila arrived in the room after the morning break.

In an emotional moment on Monday, Jackson's daughters looked to their father as he wiped away tears while Jackson read her opening statement.

-ABC News' Trish Turner

Raising gender balance in the judiciary and the fact that, if confirmed, there would be four women on the Supreme Court, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., gave Judge Jackson an opportunity to speak to what it would mean to her personally to see more women represented on the nation's highest court in its history.

"I think it's extremely meaningful," Jackson replied. "One of the things that having diverse members of the court does is it provides for the opportunity for role models."

"Since I was nominated to this position, I have received so many notes and letters and photos from little girls around the country who tell me that they are so excited for this opportunity and that they have thought about the law in new ways because I am a woman -- because I am a Black woman -- all of those things people have said have been really meaningful to them," Jackson added.

"And we want, I think, as a country, for everyone to believe they can do things like sit on the Supreme Court. So, having meaningful numbers of women and people of color, I think, matters," she said. "I also think that it supports public confidence in the judiciary when you have different people, because we have such a diverse society."

As she's asked previous Supreme Court nominees, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., questioned Judge Jackson on her judicial views on abortion with the nation's high court set to decide cases this term that could overturn decades of legal precedent.

"I do agree with both Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Barrett on this issue," Jackson said, referring to their answers to Feinstein at their confirmation hearings. "Roe and Casey are the settled law of the Supreme Court concerning the right to terminate a woman's pregnancy."

Feinstein then asked, "Does Roe v. Wade have the status of being a case that is a super precedent, and what other Supreme Court cases do you believe have that status?"

"Well senator, all Supreme Court cases are precedential, they're binding. And their principles and their rulings have to be followed," she said.

"Roe and Casey, as you say, have been reaffirmed by the court, and have been relied upon, and reliance is one of the factors that the court considers when it seeks to revisit or is asked to revisit a precedent," she continued. "In all cases, the precedent of the Supreme Court would have to be reviewed pursuant to those factors because stare decisis is very important."

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina brought up Judge J. Michelle Childs, a U.S. District Court judge in South Carolina and his preferred nominee for the Supreme Court seat, asking Jackson about progressive groups supporting her nomination over that of Childs.

His voiced tinged with anger, Graham said, "In your nomination, did you notice people from the left were pretty much cheering you on?"

"A lot of people were cheering me on," Jackson replied.

Graham went on to allege there was a concerted effort to disqualify Childs because progressive groups painted her as a "union-busting unreliable Republican in disguise," but Jackson reminded him that she is still a sitting judge and said she has been focused on her cases.

"Would it bother you if that happened?" Graham continued to press.

Jackson, who received Graham's vote last year for the appellate court, answered that it would be "troublesome" if groups were doing anything to interfere with the nomination, but maintained that she wasn't aware of the criticism.