SGA Senate rejects President’s nominee
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrases “sga” and “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports on the SGA Senate’s consideration of five Judiciary nominees and its rejection of one.
- The paper reported that the Senate approved four nominees—Nayan Agarwal, Jack Bartholet, Jonathan Ung and Anup Regunathan—after Executive President Alex Schupper reviewed 14 applications and conducted 12 interviews.
- The article says the Senate narrowly rejected Schaefer Whiteaker, required a two-thirds vote for approval, rejected him again in a revote and prompted Schupper to seek a new nominee.
- According to the article, Ung defended the earlier election ruling against Whiteaker, while Treasurer Dylan Gorman said a fraternity member had posted a Facebook endorsement after the campaign period; the article adds that the rule was later repealed.
- The reporter writes that senators discussed the nomination privately for 10 minutes and that Cohen called for more discussion, while Pressman said the best candidate should be chosen and Peters said Whiteaker’s violation was clear.
- The article reports that three approved members were returning justices and that Bartholet was joining the Judiciary for the first time.