It was the second time in as many weeks that an Albany judge has kicked a presidential candidate off of New York's March 7 presidential primary ballot. Last week, Sen. John McCain was removed from ballot in a third of the districts in the Republican primary for not meeting state election law requirements.

State Supreme Court Justice Thomas McNamara also said Trump's supporters did not obey New York's election laws, which require a presidential candidate to submit 5,000 signatures from enrolled party members to get on a party's ballot.

"No petitions were filed with the state Board of Elections on behalf of Donald Trump," McNamara said. "Consequently ... the designating petitions of all twenty-seven candidates for delegates committed to Donald Trump are invalid."

The ruling eliminates Trump from the entire New York Reform ballot. The party operates in New York as the Independence Party. It was not immediately known whether Trump's supporters would appeal. His adviser, Roger Stone, refused to comment.

Republicans on Monday also were waiting to see whether a federal lawsuit by McCain, R-Ariz., would get him back on the ballot statewide. In a move that may indicate his thinking, U.S. District Judge Edward Korman decided Monday that McCain's name will appear on all military ballots sent out later this week.

However, if a member of the military votes for McCain in a district where his name isn't on the ballot, the vote won't count, according to Amanda Cooper, a spokeswoman for the Brennan Center for Justice, which is representing McCain in his lawsuit.

Trump is considering seeking the Reform Party's presidential nomination. But the Independence Party's Democracy Coalition, led by leftist activist Lenora Fulani, wanted Trump's delegate slates thrown off the ballot, claiming insufficient signatures.

Fulani supports Buchanan; the Independence Party chairman supports Trump.

The state Board of Elections had refused to throw Trump off the ballot and an appeal of the board's decision by Fulani's forces was heard Friday.