WASHINGTON, March 9 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Foreign Relations Committee, and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) are introducing new, bipartisan legislation that would stop foreign nations and their proxies (https://www.rfa.org/english/special-reports/china-lawfare-transnational-repression/) from using strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPP suits, to intimidate critics and dissidents in the U.S. by draining their financial resources. Authoritarian regimes are increasingly using lawfare through proxies in the United States as a means of political harassment and intimidation towards those exercising their First Amendment rights. The End Forei...