How can this be constitutional with freedom of speech?
The Constitution ONLY restricts the feds. It is up to the people of each state to decide whether they want freedom of speech or not and vote and/or recall and/or launch inititaives accordingly.
Under the incorporation doctrine, which says that selected provisions of the Bill of Rights (including freedom of speech) are applicable to the states through the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, it's not. When has constitutionality ever mattered to democrats? Liberals are thugs with a totalitarian streak a mile wide. Today, they have the power to compel obedience, they hope, and they will not miss this opportunity to stomp on as many honest people as they can.
Why in Hell does anybody choose to remain in New York?