[iconoclast]

Is there another source for this story?

Is this close enough?

The court's offering of mush might have been avoided if the Bush administration had made a strong, principled argument instead of offering a weak and tepid defense of the constitutional notion that all Americans are held to be equal in the sight of the law, a notion often honored in the breach in years past. A president never looks good riding sidesaddle, as the master of Prairie Chapel Ranch could have told him.

This is just part of the reaction of that other "left-wing" journalist, Wes Pruden.

[Miss Marple]

So where did Pruden get the information? Stating it as a fact is no different than people here who say it is a fact.

I don't know if this is an accurate portrayal of what happened or not. I just want to know if someone also reported it when Novak did without quoting Novak.

[Miss Marple]

Let me clarify my last remark. Pruden is alking about the argument itself. There are plenty of people who didn't like the brief.

What I want to know is where Novak got his information that the brief was stronger and had been watered down, and if anyone else reported this besides Novak.