Yet, peaceful conservative speakers are sometimes silenced or arrested in progressive cities and college campuses just because crowds or listeners have a hostile reaction to their speech, in violation of the Supreme Court’s Terminiello decision.

Periodically, courts have to remind progressives that such censorship violates the First Amendment, such as in the April 18 ruling in Meinecke v. City of Seattle, where the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ruling by progressive judge Barbara Rothstein that effectively upheld such censorship. ...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 3-to-0 that the government’s actions were likely unconstitutional, and it issued a preliminary injunction banning Seattle “from enforcing § 12A.16.010(A)(3) against Meinecke in public parks and streets based on the anticipated hostile reaction of an audience.” The court ruled that the city’s actions were “content-based heckler’s vetoes”[.]