The Student Government Trial Court ruled to instate candidates who had formerly been disqualified from the StudentsFirst campaign Monday — but prolonged hearings which could overturn the decision were postponed until this morning.The SG Trial Court heard two of three cases Monday night concerning the candidates’ disqualification because of alleged spending errors. The Trial Court first heard the case of SG Election Board vs. StudentsFIRST candidates Courtney Broussard, Paige Kennedy, Emily McCalla, Lauren Weicks, Zac Lemoine and Kyle Bove — disqualified candidates who had the most votes in their respective races.The StudentsFIRST candidates sought instatement, claiming they didn’t overspend their allowed campaign expenditures of $29 each. On their expenditure reports, Hudson wrote each candidate spent $32.75 for campaigning. Hudson said he mistakenly believed the candidates’ spending limit was more than it was. The SG Election Board disqualified every StudentsFIRST candidate except Hudson and his Vice President Dani Borel after the SG runoff election two weeks ago because of this error.  ”These six students won their positions fair and square,” Borel said. “This error was made on J’s and my part, and we take full responsibility for this error.” Hudson filed a complaint Monday morning challenging the SG Election Board’s ruling and claimed his candidates didn’t overspend.  He said he recalculated his campaign expenditures — leaving each candidate at $28.50 in campaign expenses. He said the new math proved his candidates should be instated. Commissioner of Elections Alexis Sarver and former Commissioner of Elections Jordan Millazo said StudentsFIRST candidates broke the election code by signing their expenditure reports and swearing the expenses were correct. ”The election code is in place to make sure the candidates run a fair and clean election, and they did just that,” Borel said. Trial Court Judge Daniel Marsh ruled in favor of the StudentsFIRST candidates after hearing the evidence and instated them. ”This is simply a typographical error,” Marsh said. “There are hundreds of typographical errors through our documents.” Sarver appealed the decision and moved the case into the University Court. Marsh also heard Speaker of the Senate Tyler Martin and College of Arts and Sciences Sen. Drew Prestridge’s complaint against Hudson and Borel for failing to properly file accurate expenditure reports as required by the Election Code.  ”Everyone is responsible for knowing the code,” Martin said. Martin noted “clear breaches of the election code” of an unaccounted-for $55 on the StudentsFIRST’s expenditures. Marsh adjourned the case when the Student Union closed at 10:45 p.m. and moved the court case to 7:30 a.m. today. A third case was supposed to be heard Monday night between Leading the Way candidates Brooksie Bonvillain and Chris Sellers and Hudson and Borel. Because of time constraints, this case will be held this morning following Martin and Prestridge’s case against the president- and vice president-elect Hudson and Borel. Bonvillain and Sellers filed for the disqualification of all StudentsFIRST candidates for breaches of the election code other than the financial oversight on which the Trial Court had already ruled. The complaints accused StudentsFIRST candidates of breaching rules which prohibit candidates from being cross-listed on multiple tickets and operating on a ticket unrecognized by the Election Board. One-third of the SG Senate signed a petition to hold a special Senate session today at 6:30 p.m. to hear a concurrent resolution and bill by Sen. Ben Clark, college of Basic Sciences.  Both bills passed the Senate before spring break, but were vetoed by SG President Stuart Watkins on Monday. The concurrent resolution “requests the recusal of all members of the Judicial Branch who have made any public or private endorsement or who have offered counsel to any ticket, candidate or campaign.” The bill amends the Rules of Court, taking into account the recusal of members of the Judicial Branch when the University Court votes on an appeal.–Contact Catherine Threlkeld at [email protected]