Maine bans Trump from 2024 election ballot.

Maine became the second state after Colorado to bar former President Donald Trump from appearing on its 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot, state officials announced late Thursday.

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, said the “insurrectionist ban" in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution applies to Trump and the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It's the same reason Colorado barred Trump.

Evidence shows the attack "occurred at the behest of, and with the knowledge and support of, the outgoing President (Trump)," Bellows wrote in her 34-page decision.

Maine’s decision came nine days after, and is separate from, the Colorado Supreme Court's unprecedented ruling Dec. 19 that disqualified Trump from its primary ballot. Those decisions will continue to reverberate across the nation.