The ASUC Senate is set to vote on the confirmation of an attorney general and of five new members of the Judicial Council at a meeting tonight.

The nominee for attorney general is Deepti Rajendran. The five nominees to the council include three undergraduates and two graduates, according Jan Crowder, ASUC director of student affairs. The undergraduates up for confirmation are Ryan Mattison, Emrin Dhatt and Suneeta Israni, while graduate students Scott Lara and Abraham Escareno round out the group.

If confirmed by a two-thirds approval of the ASUC Senate, four of them will begin their two-year terms on the council immediately, and the fifth will begin on Nov. 11, said Noah Ickowitz, chair of the constitutional and procedural review committee, in an email. The committee was responsible for selecting the candidates which were presented to the senate.

This vote for new council members is not in response to the recent inflammatory Berkeley College Republicans’ bake sale, as candidates have been in the vetting process for over “three weeks,” according to Ickowitz. Also, there has been no punitive action taken by the ASUC or requested by students through charge sheets filed against the campus Republicans.

Candidates for the five spots went through “several days of interviews” before being appointed by the constitutional and procedural review committee to the ASUC Senate, according to Crowder.

If approved, they will join the current four members — Jorge Pacheco, Ashley Hall, Hinh Tran and Erica Furer — who are already sitting on the the council, according to Crowder.

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