Ordering former Gov. John G. Rowland to appear at a hearing on legislation to regulate lobbying by former state officials isn’t likely to elicit any information.

Rowland, just released from a federal prison for a corruption conviction that plea-bargained away most of what he did wrong, almost surely would invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to testify, lest he incriminate himself over having taken what appears to have been a no-show job with a state contractor after resigning as governor.

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