Washington correspondent for the New York Times; former legal affairs reporter for the Boston Globe and a 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winner for his national reporting on President Bush's expanded use of signing statements; author of Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy, about the Bush Administration's efforts to expand presidential powers
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