Following hours of questions from Republican senators interrogating her character and career accomplishments, US Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was brought to tears as New Jersey Senator Cory Booker delivered a passionate address placing her historic confirmation hearing within the nation’s wider civil rights legacy.
Senator Booker, one of only 11 African American senators in US history, acknowledged the obstacles that Judge Jackson – who will be the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s high court, if confirmed – has endured, and which no other senator scrutinising her career has experienced.
