📜 Writing the Foreword for "Constitutional Legitimacy and Presidential Term Limits," a new book coming soon from Alexandre Freitas Couto, a recent doctoral graduate of the Universidade de Brasília. 🎉 The book asks a provocative question: can it ever be legitimate for presidents to evade term limits? 🤩 This outstanding book will be published in the Routledge Series on Comparative Constitutional Change!

The looming retirement of the Federal Reserve’s longest-serving policymaker has set off a debate within the US central bank over the rules governing term limits for regional Fed leaders, according to people familiar with the discussions.

🔥🚨 JUST IN — Governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, GOES OFF on Sen. Mitch McConnell's complete absence: "I hope that he is one of the reasons that we get term limits. I tell you what, I’d even name the bill after him." "It is a total lack of accountability, the belief that he has no boss and answers to no one. His bosses are the people of Kentucky that elected him." "He refuses to do a video for them, to call into your show or anyone else’s, just to show people that he’s okay and capable of doing his job." "John Thune, who’s supposed to be in charge of that Senate, is asked to show some leadership and ensure that Mitch McConnell has capacity; he says, “Not my issue. That’s between Senator McConnell and the people of Kentucky.” "The legacy of Mitch McConnell — he wanted it to be the longest-serving majority leader, he wanted it to be, I guess, building up the Republican Party in Kentucky — it’s going to be how he handled this period of time."

The Supreme Court has become a partisan body that’s undermining democracy and empowering authoritarianism. We must reform the Court by expanding it, putting term limits on it, and codifying strong ethics standards in law.

In a recent episode of the @ThisWeeknAI, our CEO @NaveenGRao joined @jason for a roundtable discussion with @chaselochmiller (@CrusoeAI) and @ml_angelopoulos (@arena). Naveen discusses the long-term limits of scaling AI on today’s computing architectures and why new approaches to hardware and computation will be needed as the field continues to grow. The discussion also touches on infrastructure constraints, evaluation challenges, and how engineers can stand out as the industry matures. These are the kinds of questions we are exploring every day at Unconventional AI. Watch the full conversation below.

NETANYAHU’S OPPONENTS MOVE TO REVERSE HIS KEY POLICIES IN ISRAEL’S PARLIAMENT Newly elected opposition lawmakers in Israel, led by Gadi Eisenkot, have introduced a series of legislative proposals aimed at reversing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s key policies. Their agenda includes establishing a state commission of inquiry into the political and security failures surrounding the October 7 Hamas attacks, imposing term limits on prime ministers, and reversing the government’s judicial overhaul. The opposition also plans to repeal laws that would weaken the attorney general’s authority and increase political influence over police oversight. However, Eisenkot faces challenges in forming a governing coalition despite securing the support of 67 members of the 120-seat Knesset. The proposed bills will require parliamentary approval, while Netanyahu has criticized the opposition’s reliance on Israeli Arab parties to form a new government.