California Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced Thursday that former President Donald Trump will remain on the Golden State’s 2024 primary ballot after both Maine and Colorado chose to boot him.

Weber released a list of 23 certified presidential candidates, which included Trump, for the Republican, Democratic, and minor party primaries to be held in California on March 5.

The secretary of state had faced pressure to kick the former president off the 2024 ballot from California Lieutenant Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, who urged Weber in a Dec. 20 letter “to explore every legal option” for removal.

Weber responded two days later that there were “complex legal issues surrounding this matter,” and she pledged to “place the sanctity of these elections above partisan politics.”

Her office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In her letter, Kounalakis had cited the Dec. 19 ruling by Colorado’s Supreme Court in Anderson v. Griswold, which ousted the 77-year-old ex-president from the state’s GOP primary ballot.

The decision cited Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results that culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot as a violation of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which bans former officials from holding office again if they have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion.”

But the ruling was stayed by the state’s high court and then appealed by the Colorado Republican Party to the US Supreme Court, which must decide whether to take up the case before a Jan. 5 certification deadline.

Meanwhile, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced Thursday that Trump would still be on the primary ballot unless the Supreme Court quickly affirms the state court ruling.

On Thursday, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows disqualified Trump from the state’s Republican primary contest, also citing his “insurrection” and participation in the “unprecedented” events of Jan. 6.

Thousands of Trump supporters protested Joe Biden’s victory in front of the White House that day before marching to Congress and eventually breaching the US Capitol building in an attempt to stop the Electoral College certification.

Special counsel Jack Smith has indicted Trump on four counts in Washington, DC, alleging conspiracy to defraud the US government, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.

No charges were brought against Trump for allegedly violating the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. More than a dozen other states have similar lawsuits seeking to kick the former president out of the Republican Party’s nominating process.

Congressional Republicans have slammed states for removing Trump from primary ballots as the former president awaits trial in his Jan. 6 federal case.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) called the Colorado decision “a thinly veiled partisan attack” the day it was announced.

“Regardless of political affiliation, every citizen registered to vote should not be denied the right to support our former president and the individual who is the leader in every poll of the Republican primary,” he posted on X.

“Another day, another illegal and corrupt act by the desperate radical Democrats weaponizing government against President Trump, Joe Biden’s top political opponent,” House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said in a statement after Maine’s decision Thursday night.

“The Far Left Democrat Maine Secretary of State just unilaterally removed President Trump off the ballot. This is election interference, voter suppression, and a blatant attack on democracy. The Supreme Court must overturn this unprecedented and unconstitutional action now.”

President Biden, who is lagging behind Trump in recent national polls, declined to comment on Colorado’s ruling after it was announced but said it was “self-evident” the former president was “an insurrectionist.”

“I think certain things are self-evident,” Biden responded to a reporter’s question on Dec. 20 in Milwaukee. “You saw it all. Now whether the 14th Amendment applies, I’ll let the court make that decision.”

Michigan’s Supreme Court earlier this week rejected a bid from their secretary of state to remove Trump after lower courts had ruled in favor of keeping the former president on the 2024 primary ballot.

Michigan’s primary contest will be held Feb. 27, while Colorado and Maine have theirs scheduled for March 5, the day after Trump’s federal trial in connection with the Capitol riot is due to begin.