A former Fox News reporter will be testifying for my bill.

An example of the new bipartisan Annapolis?

Not quite.

Jana Winter reported on the mass shooting at a movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado.

A trial court judge ordered her to reveal the source for her story about a notebook that the gunman sent to his psychiatrist before the shooting.

However, since Winter was based in Manhattan, New York’s highest court ruled that the state’s reporter’s shield law would be violated if Winter was forced to reveal her source.

My bill would adopt that same standard. A Maryland-based reporter could not be subpoenaed to testify in another state if that testimony could not be required under our shield law.

The reporter, a press lawyer, and I will also meet with the committee chair before the hearing.

It’s not bipartisan.  It’s not fair and balanced.

It’s personalizing what would otherwise be an abstract protection of the free press.