Talk:Lawrence Walsh

Politically motivated indictment
Mr. Walsh brought an indictment of Weinberger out of grand jury four days prior to the 1992 general election, which conflicted with longstanding Justice Department policy of not bringing an indictment out of a grand jury after August of an election. It has been widely viewed that Walsh’s action was politically motivated and was the determining factor in Bill Clinton’s election. The one count indictment was thrown out by U.S. Federal Judge Thomas Hogan on December 11, 1992 on the grounds that it had violated the five year statute of limitation. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/12/us/charge-in-weinberger-case-that-caused-furor-before-election-is-thrown-out.html?pagewanted=1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alamo.texas (talk • contribs) 23:08, 2 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Mark Levin and the Landmark Legal Foundation were involved in defending former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese against the scurrilous charges brought by Lawrence Walsh against Meese, Caspar Weinberger and others. He spoke about it at length during the second hour of his radio show today. (Archived audio for 2014-03-20 available at http://www.marklevinshow.com/.  Start at time index 0:37:19.) In the end, not only were most of the charges dismissed, he explained, but there wasn't even the commission of a crime.  Mr. Walsh was clearly operating outside the U.S. Constitution and the bounds of professional ethics. — QuicksilverT @ 03:50, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Walsh was a Democrat
Walsh, a Democrat who often served under Republicans, is no stranger to controversy.

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-12-14/news/mn-3224_1_independent-counsel Matt0518 (talk) 17:49, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Looks like a reliable source to me. I went ahead and made that change. 2601:281:CC80:5AE0:4D21:A60F:D3CD:7772 (talk) 06:10, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * And yet, the same source also says...
 * https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-xpm-2014-mar-20-la-me-lawrence-walsh-20140321-story.html 216.171.187.6 (talk) 19:38, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Dual citizen?
Please improve the article by explaining whether he was he a dual citizen, or he renounced his Canadian citizenship at some point. 2601:281:CC80:5AE0:4D21:A60F:D3CD:7772 (talk) 06:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Lawrence Walsh Was A Lifelong Republican
Better confirm one way or the other.

There has never been a Special Counsel, Independent Counsel, or FBI Director, who was a Democrat.

"A lifelong Republican, Walsh served as a federal judge in Manhattan in the 1950s, appointed to the bench by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, before joining Eisenhower’s Justice Department as deputy attorney general. Under President Nixon, he was a negotiator to the Paris peace talks with North Vietnam."

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/12/lawrence-walsh-obit-113858/ 172.59.32.88 (talk) 03:55, 15 June 2023 (UTC)