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Slate's Dahlia Lithwick chose Charlie Savage's book "Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy" as "one of the legal books that most changed the landscape this year."

Savage won the Pulitzer prize for his coverage of presidential signing statements in a series of articles in the Boston Globe. The use of signing statements is a key part of his account in Takeover regarding the Bush administration's efforts to increase executive power.

ACS released the first comprehensive index of presidential signing statements issued between 2001 and 2007, compiled by Neil Kinkopf and Peter Shane, as well as an issue brief by Professor Kinkopf entitled Signing Statements and the President's Authority to Refuse to Enforce the Law.