Senator Booker moves Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson to tears during emotional speech

By Gerren Keith Gaynor, TheGrio

“You have earned this spot. You are worthy. You are a great American,” said Sen. Cory Booker to Judge Jackson, who stands to become the first Black woman Supreme Court justice.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was moved to tears during a stirring speech delivered by Senator Cory Booker on Day 3 of Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

During his 20-minute allotted time to question Judge Jackson on the final day of the nominee’s Q&A portion of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Booker chose instead to praise Jackson after a series of contentious questioning from Republican Senators.

“I’m not letting anybody in the Senate steal my joy,” said Booker, the only Black Senator on the committee’s 22-member panel. “I just look at you and I start getting full of emotion.”

“The look in her eyes…she just wanted to touch me I think because I’m sitting so close to you and tell me what it meant to her to watch you sitting where you’re sitting,” Booker shared. “You did not get there because of some left-wing agenda. You didn’t get here because of some dark money groups. You got here how every Black woman in America who’s gotten anywhere.”

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