See this blog post from Political Wire, which says that Congressman Justin Amash is thinking seriously about running for president.
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On April 13, U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Berg permitted another candidate to file an amicus in the pending lawsuit over primary petitioning during the health crisis. Esshaki v Whitmer, e.d., 2:20cv-10831.
The candidate who will submit an amicus must do so by close of business, April 14. He is Daniel Finley, who is running in a non-partisan judicial race in Washtenaw County. The law requires him to submit 1,000 signatures by late April.
The Salem News has this editorial, urging a cut in the number of signatures needed to get on primary ballots in Massachusetts.
The most important office on the ballot in Wisconsin on April 7 was the State Supreme Court race run-off. Even though it is technically non-partisan, it is in reality intensely partisan, with a Republican incumbent running for another term against a Democratic candidate. Here are the New York Times results, which shows the Democrat is leading, with 50% of the precincts reporting..
The Republican is Dan Kelly; the Democrat is Jill Karofsky.
No state seems to have such a partisan State Supreme Court as Wisconsin. The Wisconsin judicial election system is a textbook example of why making elections technically non-partisan does not actually remove partisanship from that election.
U.S. District Court Judge Mark Walker will hear Independent Party of Florida v Lee on Friday, June 5, at 9 a.m. This is the case that challenges the 2011 Florida law that says ballot-qualified parties can’t be on for president unless they are either recognized by the Federal Election Commission as “national committees”, or unless they submit 132,781 signatures by July 15. The plaintiffs are the Independent Party, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
The state did not enforce this law in 2012, but it did in 2016.