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Cite as:  601 U. S. ____ (2024) 

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Per Curiam 

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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 

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No. 23–719 
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DONALD J. TRUMP, PETITIONER v. 
NORMA ANDERSON, ET AL. 

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT 
OF COLORADO 

[March 4, 2024] 

PER CURIAM. 
A group of Colorado voters contends that Section 3 of the
Fourteenth  Amendment  to  the  Constitution  prohibits  for-
mer President Donald J. Trump, who seeks the Presidential 
nomination of the Republican Party in this year’s election,
from  becoming  President  again.  The  Colorado  Supreme 
Court agreed with that contention.  It ordered the Colorado 
secretary of state to exclude the former President from the
Republican primary ballot in the State and to disregard any 
write-in votes that Colorado voters might cast for him. 

Former President Trump challenges that decision on sev-
eral  grounds.  Because  the  Constitution  makes  Congress, 
rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 
against federal officeholders and candidates, we reverse. 

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Last  September,  about  six  months  before  the  March  5, 
2024, Colorado primary election, four Republican and two 
unaffiliated Colorado voters filed a petition against former 
President  Trump  and  Colorado  Secretary  of  State  Jena
Griswold in Colorado state court.  These voters—whom we 
refer  to  as  the  respondents—contend  that  after  former