Several Republican senators cited Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s decision to sentence niece rapist Leo Weekes to half the prison time sought by prosecutors — allowing Weekes to allegedly assault another relative when he would have been locked up — ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Monday vote on Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court.Details of the case — which were reported by The Post on Sunday — were not widely known during Jackson’s confirmation hearings, meaning she didn’t face questions about her decision to give Weekes 12 months behind bars for falsifying sex offender registration information rather than the 24 the government had requested. The full story of Jackson’s role in Weekes’ case emerged in a cache of records delivered to the Judiciary Committee just ahead of the panel’s scheduled Monday vote.
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