Right, she was just in charge of bringing a state's cases against people and is likely about to become second in line for the Presidency.

Both states and Kamala can't limit speech due to the current SCOTUS absolutist consensus on the first amendment, but that doesn't mean they don't want to. If we are to judge from colleges' foray into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_code in the 90s, the entirety of FIRE jurisprudence in the last 2 decades, and FAANG workforces demanding more censorship, colleges being a pretty close approximation of liberal views on the freedom of speech, especially future views, the moment SCOTUS lifts its absolutism, there will be numerous regulations of speech in liberal jurisdictions, and then federally.

You see it all the time here. It's the "pragmatic urbanite" mindset on firearms: you're not supposed to support heavy-handed bans, but you're _absolutely_ not supposed to suggest that otherwise-favored politicians are trying to enact heavy-handed bans, even when they've already done it and when they brag about it as part of their campaigns.