Claire Goudy

The ASUC Elections Council held its final meeting of the academic year virtually on Friday to approve election results for the 2019-20 academic year.

The ASUC Senate held a special meeting Friday to pass several bills surrounding new appointments for various positions as well as several measures to increase disability equity on campus and reinforce support for undocumented students.

After nearly four hours of discussion — the majority of which was spent in closed session — the ASUC Judicial Council announced that this upcoming Friday, it will deliberate on Student Action’s appeal of the ruling that disqualified the party's entire slate from the 2019 election cycle.

Five newly appointed justices joined the four remaining justices at the ASUC Judicial Council meeting Monday to reorganize after last month’s resignations and rule on the appeal request from Student Action after the party's disqualification.

ASUC senators passed a resolution establishing a student fee committee and appointed members to the Judicial and Elections councils Wednesday night.

The ASUC Senate ratified President Alexander Wilfert’s recent emergency executive order and approved the Annual Budget and Spaces Allocation, or ABSA, budget at Wednesday night’s regular meeting.

ASUC President Alexander Wilfert issued an emergency executive order Friday afternoon in an attempt to quickly fill the vacancies brought about by a flurry of resignations from the Elections and Judicial councils.

About 200 students attended Wednesday night’s regular ASUC meeting to both voice their support for and condemnation of the Judicial Council’s recent controversial ruling that resulted in the retroactive disqualification of all Student Action candidates in the 2019 ASUC elections.

All three referendums — including two that will increase student fees to fund basic needs and entertainment programs, respectively, and another that will create an elected position within the ASUC — passed during the 2019 ASUC elections.

The ASUC Elections Council denied campus junior Jasmine Sheena’s independent senate candidacy for the 2019 ASUC elections, announced the withdrawal of two candidates and enacted a temporary rule regarding filing fee payments at its candidate approval meeting Monday morning.