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

During the time allotted time to question Judge Jackson on the last day of the nominee’s Q&A portion of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Booker didn’t question her but instead decided to praise Jackson after a series of questions from Republican Senators.

Jackson had been asked several questions from her sentencing record on child pornography cases and her association with a private school in Washington, D.C. that Sen. Ted Cruz implied taught “critical race theory.” Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested that Judge Jackson was the nominee as a result of “dark money” from far-left organization.

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

The New Jersey Senator told a story about going out for a run earlier in the day and being approached by a Black woman who told him what it meant to see Jackson during her confirmation hearing to become the Supreme Court’s first Black woman justice.

“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 said. “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.”

Judge Jackson later grabbed for a tissue and proceeded to wipe tears from her eyes.

Booker also slammed his Republican colleagues’ treatment of Judge Jackson, “What they’re bringing up…that just doesn’t hold water,” he said.

“When that final vote happens and you are sent onto the highest court in the land, I’m going to rejoice… and the greatest country in the world, the United States of America will be better because of you.”

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