As the 2024 presidential campaign heats up, America’s adversaries are working overtime to interfere with our democratic system. The Department of Justice and Washington think tanks have recently exposed efforts by China, Iran, and Russia to infiltrate and manipulate both political parties and their nominees. These kinds of foreign interference operations should be totally unacceptable to the American public, and our leaders should seek out ways to block them and punish those responsible.
Sadly, though, malignant foreign influence in American government stretches beyond our elections; it is a major problem facing our courts as well. Through a legal mechanism known as third-party litigation funding, antagonistic regimes can invest in lawsuits against American companies and wage a subtle form of economic warfare against them. This poses a clear ongoing national security threat, and Congress should act rapidly to close loopholes that allow our enemies to weaponize our legal system against us.
