Virginia’s state House Speaker Don Scott, a Democrat and the first black man to have the job, said former President Donald Trump is “too extreme” to be on the commonwealth’s ballot in the November presidential election.

“In my opinion, he should not” be on Virginia’s ballot, Scott told Axios.

His remark comes as two states have moved to prevent Trump from appearing on their respective ballots, with Colorado’s Supreme Court ruling him ineligible and Maine’s secretary of state determining the same. The U.S. Supreme Court has since agreed to hear an appeal to the 14th Amendment insurrection clause argument against Trump’s ballot access.

A similar effort to bar Trump from Virginia’s ballot was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema last month. Several other states have ruled against the attempts to stop Trump from appearing on the ballot.

According to Scott, “He’s too extreme for Virginia, and he’ll continue to be.”

“Although this increasingly litigated legal question of whether former President Trump may be disqualified from running for or serving in public office raises issues of the utmost importance in our democratic system of self-governance, the Court cannot reach the merits of plaintiff’s claims because it lacks subject-matter jurisdiction,” the judge ruled in Virginia.

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Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) shared his support of the court’s decision last week. “I applaud this decision in advance of Virginia’s presidential primary. The choice belongs to the voters, not the courts,” he wrote on X, the social media platform once called Twitter.

The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in the appeal of Colorado’s ballot ruling on Feb. 8.