Our right to protest is more important than ever. New Yorkers, like people across the country, are increasingly taking to the streets to defend our freedoms, from the No Kings and Hands Off marches, to anti-war rallies, and spontaneous protests challenging the lawlessness of ICE. Given this, you might think New York’s leaders would do everything possible to defend the right to speak out. You’d be wrong. City and state lawmakers are instead pushing legislation to create no-speech zones, euphemistically called “buffer zones,” where protest is forbidden. It’s a dangerous move. Gov. Hochul and some state lawmakers have called for...