The FARA states that organizations paid by a foreign principal to engage in activities to "influence any agency or official of the Government of the United States or any section of the public within the United States" must register as a foreign agent and report such activity to the Department of Justice.

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But the Lord Chief Justice's principal private secretary Laurene McAlpine has said courts must act without external influence.

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