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Donald Trump’s latest move in the E. Jean Carroll litigation landed on the Supreme Court docket in mid-November, not on November 11. The court’s public docket says the petition for review was filed on November 10, 2025, and docketed three days later, on November 13. The case is captioned Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, v. E. Jean Carroll. ([supremecourt.gov](https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25-573.html))

A separate filing then followed on November 14. In that request, Carroll’s counsel told the Court the response was due December 15, 2025, and asked for a 30-day extension to file an opposition brief, pushing the deadline to January 14, 2026. The filing itself says the petition had been filed on November 10 and placed on the docket on November 13. ([supremecourt.gov](https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25-573/384627/20251114174539999_25-573%20-%20Request%20for%20Extension.pdf))

The petition grows out of the Second Circuit’s December 30, 2024 decision in Carroll’s favor, which affirmed a $5 million judgment after a jury found Trump sexually abused Carroll and defamed her. The appeals court denied rehearing on June 13, 2025, giving the Supreme Court filing a straightforward procedural path rather than a sudden jump into a new case. ([govinfo.gov](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-ca2-23-00793/pdf/USCOURTS-ca2-23-00793-0.pdf))

So the clean timeline is simple: the cert petition was filed on November 10, docketed on November 13, and answered with a request for extra time on November 14. That is the paper trail, and in this case, the paper trail is the story. ([supremecourt.gov](https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25-573.html))