No opposition means there’s no opposition.

I hope.

No one signed up to testify against my two bills in the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee. The chairman took note of that after I finished testifying on the first.

That legislation deals with legal liability for architectural and design firms when their employees enter on a third party’s property during a construction or renovation project. The example I gave was setting foot on a railroad property to make an assessment of a bridge overhead.

Arcane for sure.

The second was my bill extending the reporter’s shield law to student journalists for college newspapers. The chairman repeated the first argument I made in my written testimony.

But unanimity is not busting out all over Annapolis.

I was in back-to-back meetings about two very controversial issues: impeachment of Attorney General Doug Gansler because of his legal opinion that the State can recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states and a budget bill amendment that would cut funds for the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Maryland Law School because it sued Perdue Farms for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act.

What we decided will be known shortly.