LOL! You went to a different law school than I did.
My con law professor was Billups Phinizy ("Phin") Percy, Walker Percy's brother, of the old, monied, well-connected Percy family. Lots of US senators and governors and judges in that family. A wonderfully cynical man. Not an ounce of hokum in his makeup.
Law is what the judges say it is. Some judges are motivated by love of power, some by love of the powerful, some want to help the downtrodden, some see themselves as saviours of mankind, some see themselves as God's champions, some are cynical, some are reprobates, some are dishonest old crooks, most mean well but all are human and all are flawed.
There are over 500 books containing United States Supreme Court opinions. If you want to understand constitutional law, you'd better be prepared for a lot of reading, and pack your hip boots.
Even the ones who say they believe in judicial restraint, like Scalia and Rehnquist, really don't. They just have different ideas about how to run things.
In the end, government (including the judicial branch) is what we say it is.