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Why No Autopsy for Supreme Justice Scalia?

by AMIL IMANI
<http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/detail/amil-imani>, JAMES HYDE
<http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/detail/james-hyde> February
17, 2016

[image: Description: scalia ranch]

Yogi Berra once said, "It's déjà vu all over again." His peculiar
linguistic pronouncements certainly fit regarding the circumstances
surrounding the demise of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The facts
so far are even muddier than they were when President John F. Kennedy was
assassinated. But here we are again and there's enough mystery here to get
Sherlock Holmes salivating.

Even now, the sense of conspiracy about that day in Dallas is highly
palpable. But back then, all we knew was the president had been
assassinated after being shot in the head. Investigators began to see
problems with the official version almost instantly even though it would be
years before the public was shown the Zapruder film. That's when the polls
showed that 75% of the population came down on the side of conspiracy.

In the case of Justice Scalia, things just are not adding up. It's
difficult to know what website or blog to believe, except to stick with the
most credible ones. Many sites are reporting that a judge, Presidio County
Judge Cinderella Guevara, declared Scalia dead from a heart attack, but did
so without even heading to the ranch where he passed away and to
investigate.

She did clarify that aspect of the rumor flying thickly around us. Despite
a web loaded with stories that Scalia succumbed to a "myocardial
infarction," Guevara told The Blaze
<http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/02/14/it-wasnt-a-heart-attack-confusion-and-conflicting-reports-surround-justice-scalias-death/>
that she did not declare the cause of death as being a heart attack.
The Huffington
Post
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/antonin-scalia-heart-attack_us_56c0cae3e4b0b40245c70f1b>
held its punches and declared the cause of the justice's demise to be
"undetermined."

Guevara acknowledged talking to Scalia's doctor and being told by him that
Scalia had had an MRI done on his shoulder and that he suffered from some
"chronic problems," all of which were glossed over and none mentioned as
being capable of causing a heart attack.

According to The Blaze
<http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/02/14/it-wasnt-a-heart-attack-confusion-and-conflicting-reports-surround-justice-scalias-death/>,
"Guevara acknowledged to the Washington Post
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/texas-tv-station-scalia-died-of-a-heart-attack/2016/02/14/938e2170-d332-11e5-9823-02b905009f99_story.html>
that she pronounced Scalia dead over the phone on Saturday without seeing
his body. She told WFAA she had planned to head to the ranch but that a
U.S. Marshal told her over the phone, ‘It's not necessary for you to come,
judge. If you're asking for an autopsy, that's what we need to clarify.'"

The Post
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/texas-tv-station-scalia-died-of-a-heart-attack/2016/02/14/938e2170-d332-11e5-9823-02b905009f99_story.html>
reported that another Justice of the Peace was called but couldn't get to
Scalia's body in time - and that she would have made a different
determination. "If it had been me ... I would want to know," Juanita
Bishop, a Justice of the Peace in Presidio, Texas, told the paper in a
Sunday interview.

A scion of the Supreme Court, a man very much larger than life, amusing,
very close friends with the most liberal member of the court, a man who
cherished the Constitution and loved to teach, a fair-minded Supreme Court
icon is found dead in bed and there's no need for the judge to come out?

A U.S. Marshal (not a local sheriff, but a U.S. Marshal) tells her to stay
put? How, pray tell did a U.S. Marshal suddenly show up and start telling
the judge what to do? That's convenient, and Yogi Berra pops into mind
again. Had JFK's body been autopsied in Texas, as it should have been, we'd
have a lot more answers about what happened to the president. Instead, two
doctors who had never done a forensic autopsy before were tapped to autopsy
the president?

We decided to look up Texas law for such circumstances. Where murder may
have occurred [and the lack of any indication of foul play does not rule
out murder], it's governed by the "law of the situs," meaning that local
Texas law applied in this case. It was not a federal matter.

Under Texas law, TITLE 1.
<http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/CR/htm/CR.49.htm> CODE OF
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, CHAPTER 49. INQUESTS UPON DEAD BODIES

UBCHAPTER A. DUTIES PERFORMED BY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE Art. 49.04. DEATHS
REQUIRING AN INQUEST.  (a) A justice of the peace shall conduct an inquest
into the death of a person who dies in the county served by the justice if:

[Subsection one and two have been deleted because they do not apply in this
case.]

(3) the body or a body part of a person is found, the cause or
circumstances of death are unknown, and:

(A) the person is identified; or

(B) the person is unidentified;

The law clearly applies in this case. So, when is this inquest to take
place? Too late, the Justice's body, embalmed, is already on its way home
to Virginia, and nobody has any idea what caused his death. "Natural
causes" translated into plain English is: "Damned if I know," and that is
unacceptable in every respect in this case. He's declared dead of natural
causes by a judge who hasn't even seen the body. Does that strike anyone
else as extremely odd? It should be pointed out that under the law she can
do so, but when a member of the SCOTUS is involved, you'd think she'd want
to see the scene for herself. Relying on instructions from a Federal
Marshall makes her an unwitting complicit if Justice Scalia was poisoned
during dinner the night before.

We might understand not going if the poor soul was a homeless person who
was clearly in really bad health anyway. But someone so important to the
SCOTUS and the country is just shipped out to a funeral home, apparently
embalmed quickly (thus no blood samples to find anything that might trigger
a heart attack or any other poison). This utterly shatters credulity and
forces the American people to ask the question yet again, is Texas suddenly
the land of conspiracies? First JFK, now this. Events are moving along way
too fast, and the most important evidence has been compromised.

But that's only the prelude. It's been decided that no autopsy will be
performed. Isn't that convenient? If, and we are not saying it is the case,
but if the Justice was murdered and just before the Supreme Court was to
start its next term, it's simply too opportune not to consider conspiracy.

In any such case, the investigators start by looking at who benefits from
Scalia's demise. The pipeline from lower courts that flows to the SCOTUS is
chock full of very meaningful rulings, such as Obama's executive action on
immigration, whether the Little Sisters of the Poor have to condone
abortifacients, labor issues and on and on.

If he wanted to, President Obama could simply put a rabidly liberal
individual on the court right now. How? Recess appointment. The Senate is
not in session right now, and under the Constitution, the president can put
anyone he wants there unless... Mitch McConnell calls the Senate back into
session and declares it is in "pro forma" session. In essence that means
that while the Senators do nothing (nothing new), they are still in
session, and once it's been declared in session, they can all head back
home, leaving a couple of senators not facing re-election to sit in the
chamber.

To his credit, the president says he will name his nominees in good time,
which translates to, "I'll wait until the Senate is in session." But if he
changes his mind and does choose the recess appointment maneuver, Mitch
McConnell should be impeached for incredible negligence.



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