The Barrett doctrine — that presidential action is presumptively constitutional pending adjudication — is an argument about judicial deference. It is not an argument that the law does not exist until a court says it does. Those are different claims. The press has collapsed them into one. The result is a political press that covers the executive branch as though Congress has not legislated, as though the statute books are empty, as though the only constraint on presidential power is whatever five members of the Supreme Court are willing to enforce on any given Tuesday.