The Undergraduate Student Government Supreme Court ruled again Sunday night that the USG elections code violates the USG constitution and cannot be put into effect.

The court ruled the code unconstitutional for the first time Feb. 17 and suggested changes. Members of the USG Senate and USG Academic Assembly decided not to accept the suggestions at a joint session last Thursday and sent the code back to the court for confirmation unchanged.

Town Senator Joe Atkinson said the court's decision was not strictly based on constitutionality and was therefore invalid. The court's ruling suggested improvements to the code, a task Atkinson said should be left to the senate or assembly.

"It was not the role of the court to suggest legislative changes," Atkinson said.

Atkinson said the sections of the code that the court suggested changing existed in older codes approved by USG courts. The court did not question parts of the code that this year's senate and assembly added, he said.

But Supreme Court Chief Justice Steven Maletzky said the court could not pass a code it felt was unreasonable.

Maletzky cited Article Nine of the USG constitution, which states that "election codes must be subject to Supreme Court approval," to justify the court's rejection of the code.

The senate will review the suggestions tonight, Maletzky said. Academic Assembly may hold an emergency session to review the changes, and the court will rule on the code again as soon as possible after the two groups have met, he added.

Head Elections Commissioner Wendy Goldstein said the code must be approved as soon as possible.

"As far as I'm concerned, I just want them to give me something to work with," Goldstein said.

Yesterday was the first day USG presidential candidates could pick up election packets, and candidates may not be aware of what they are committing themselves to without a code to refer to, Goldstein said.

No plans have been made to push back the election date, scheduled for March 27, but the code must be passed by March 11 for campaigning to begin, Goldstein said.