Cruz went beyond his allotted time with his attacks on Jackson, drawing a gavel from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), which led to a testy exchange between the two.
Once Cruz was done playing for the cameras, he whipped out his cellphone. Los Angeles Times reporter Nolan D. McCaskill caught what he was doing:
McCaskill’s Times colleague, photojournalist Kent Nishimura was in perfect position to confirm:
Cruz’s critics on Twitter let him have it:
