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Message: From GoLocalProv by Matthew Jerzyk, GoLocalProv MINDSETTER™: This Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled an Executive Session at which it will vote on the nomination, amongst others, of John "Jack" McConnell, Jr. to the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island. When McConnell gets voted out of the Committee, he then needs approval from the full Senate before becoming confirmed to the federal bench in Rhode Island. Sierra Club chairman Carl Pope recently took to the pages of the Huffington Post to defend McConnell from a string of coordinated attacks by right-wing organizations. In comparing McConnell's legal advocacy in support of children poisoned by lead to other judges who spent their careers making millions from the oil and gas industry, Pope writes that, "So, let me get this straight: Lawyers who try to protect children from lead poisoning are unfit to be judges, but judges who will invest heavily in a major polluting industry are fine. And chemicals can be tested for toxicity, but only if they have already been tested and found to be toxic." http://www.golocalprov.comhttp://beta.golocalprov.com/sierra-clubs-carl-pope-defends-mcconnell-judicial-nomination