# Trump v. Anderson **Status: stub — expand.** **601 U.S. 100 (2024), decided 4 March 2024.** The Court reversed the Colorado Supreme Court's order removing Donald Trump from the state's presidential primary ballot under Section 3 of the [[Fourteenth Amendment]]. All nine Justices agreed on the disposition: responsibility for enforcing Section 3 against **federal** officeholders and candidates rests with Congress, not the states. States retain concurrent authority to enforce Section 3 as to **state** offices. **What the decision did was relocate the power, not narrow it.** Section 3 remains valid and self-executing in text; Section 5 gives Congress the authority to legislate the enforcement procedure; Congress has not done so. The result is a constitutional exclusion ground with an identified enforcer and no mechanism — stage 7 of [[How a Candidate Gets on the Ballot]]. Four Justices wrote separately to object that the majority went further than the case required in foreclosing enforcement routes that were not before the Court.