Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act of 2025

Key Points

• This bill prevents foreign governments and their investment funds from paying for lawsuits in U.S. federal courts. It aims to stop other countries from using the American legal system to interfere with domestic issues.
• If a person or company from another country helps pay for a lawsuit to get a share of the money won, they must be identified. Lawyers must tell the court and the Department of Justice exactly who is providing the money and where they are from.
• People involved in a case would have to give the court copies of their funding deals. This helps judges and the government see if a foreign group has a financial interest in how a case turns out.
• Any deal where a foreign government or its wealth fund provides money for a lawsuit would be made illegal and cancelled. This is intended to protect national security and keep the court system independent.
• The Attorney General would send a yearly report to Congress about foreign money in U.S. courts. This report would list which countries are spending money on lawsuits and what kinds of cases they are funding.

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