California held its top-two primary on March 3. For the first time since top-two started in California, in 2011, an incumbent appears to have been defeated for re-election in the primary. Assemblymember Typer Diep of the 72nd district (in Orange County) placed third, although not all votes have been counted yet.

Diep was known for being the California Republican legislator who was most likely to behave in a non-partisan manner and to get along with Democratic legislators. This article at Cal Matters, by Ben Christopher, says the top-two system was promoted as a way to elect more moderate legislators, but in this case and generally it hasn’t worked as its supporters expected.

On March 16, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it is postponing all its remaining March 2016 oral arguments, until some unspecified later date. This includes the case Carney v Adams, 19-309, the case over the Delaware law that says most judicial appointments can only be made to individuals who are registered Republicans or registered Democrats. The oral argument was set for March 25 but now it is delayed.

On March 14, Governor Andrew Cuomo cut the New York primary petition requirements to 30% of normal. However, he also moved the petition deadline from April 2 to March 17, 5 p.m. See this story.

The order apparently has no effect on general election petitions. The petitioning period for them runs from early April to late May. That deadline had been in August until the 2019 session of the legislature moved it to May. That deadline is almost certainly unconstitutional, but so far no lawsuits have been filed against that deadline, as far as is known.