The Supreme Court Is Taking a Second Look at the Carroll Case – and the DOJ Perjury Probe Makes It Impossible to Ignore

President Trump potentially caught a huge break last week in righting a horrible wrong.

The Supreme Court hasn’t granted a rehearing petition since 2018, but it

redistributed a request from the president to rehear the E. Jean Carroll case. That fact alone should stop everyone who has already moved on to the next headline.

Start with the money — because the money is where this story gets genuinely explosive. Carroll’s litigation was funded in part by Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn billionaire and major Democratic donor, through a nonprofit called American Future Republic that funneled roughly $7 million to her lawyers. Hoffman’s role stayed hidden until weeks before the first trial. Carroll testified in her 2022 deposition, under oath, that no one else was paying her legal fees. The DOJ is now investigating whether that was perjury.

A federal appeals court ruled Carroll had “plausibly forgotten” who was cutting the checks. Seven million dollars. Plausibly forgotten. You are welcome to believe that if you choose.

The underlying claim rests on Carroll’s allegation that Trump assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room sometime in 1995 or 1996. No police report. No contemporaneous complaint beyond two friends she says she told. No surviving security footage — Bergdorf confirmed it keeps none from that era.

Enter New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which was passed in 2022 and is allowed to be applied retroactively (some say the Democrats who run New York passed it specifically so Carroll could sue Trump). The law created the one-year window that got her claim into court at all. A new statute. Not new evidence.