Sometimes innocent things look awfully sketchy.
If this were me, I’d want to do everything possible to avoid the public having questions.
Autopsy or not, at least a medical person should declare the time of death and make the determination he was in fact dead.
This is not the job of a judge over a phone. > IMO
I do not know who made the declaration of death. The judge was called for the reasons stated. Apparently making the decision over the phone is legal in Texas. With someone as important as Scalia and with the judge on call being a democrat, an autopsy and toxicology report should be required. She was very careless to act as though this were just an average case. If circumstances were reversed and the death was of a powerful democrat and the local judge was a republican, you can bet the left would demand such confirmation of the facts.