Disruptive Protests Are Not a Constitutional Right

I remember the first time I saw leftist protesters snarling traffic. The cause of the moment was climate, I believe, and the bright-minded activists decided to protest the use of fossil fuels by causing tens of thousands of cars (and buses) to idle on the highway.

It was an early Monday morning and organized squads of protesters deployed to shut down intersections in D.C., with commuter traffic in all directions. Some activists chained themselves to a sailboat they hauled in to an intersection to hinder any removal effort. That was in the heady, pre-COVID days of September 2019.

Since the pandemic, such disruptive protest tactics have exploded exponentially. Today, they occur so frequently it’s hard to keep track of them all. On April 15 alone protesters

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