I wonder if my constitutional law professor put freedom of speech and freedom of religion at the end of the syllabus because he knew by this point in the semester we'd be too exhausted to do anything but shrug and go "fuck it, I guess."
"Congress has more power to regulate porn than hate speech? Yeah that sounds like the kind of nonsense the Court would endorse. The Establishment Clause must be interpreted by reference to historical practices and understandings? Yeah, that tracks with their nightmare jurisprudence."
To paraphrase my professor earlier this semester: the supreme court ruins any field of law it touches.