California Secretary of state Shirley Weber chose to keep former President Donald Trump on the presidential primary ballot despite the lieutenant governor’s request to remove his name.

Weber, a Democrat from New York, didn’t comment when her office published the list of all candidates certified for the primary on March 5, which included Trump.

Weber said last week that her office will be guided by “commitment and respect for the law” following Lt. Governor. Eleni Kounalakis wrote her an open-letter asking for Trump’s names to be removed.

She added that “removing a presidential candidate from the ballot based on Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment” is not something her office does lightly. It is also not as easy as requiring a person to be 35 years old in order to run for president.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom is also a Democrat and opposed removing Trump’s name. He said that he should lose at the polls.

“There’s no doubt Donald Trump is a danger to our liberties, and even our democracy. But in California, we beat candidates at the ballot box.” Newsom, according to Politico, said that everything else was a distraction.

Kounalakis was not the only California Democrat to join the call for Trump’s removal after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that he should be removed based on the 14th Amendment “insurrection” clause, a rule from the Civil War era which prohibited people who had participated in insurrections from holding office in America.

Shenna Bellows of Maine, a Democrat as well, announced on Thursday that Trump will not be on the ballot in that state, whereas Michigan has decided to keep him.

The New York Times reports that Weber was facing a deadline of Thursday to certify the list for official candidates in California, so that ballots can be prepared for an upcoming primary election.

The Times notes that Democrats are in control of California’s government. Many thought a challenge to the ballot would be likely.

Legal experts, however, said that California does not give its secretary the full authority disqualify presidential candidates.