Read the story at Drudge. The doc said he suffered from a host of chronic conditions. You may not know it but that means when a person is old and overweight they have additional conditions like diabetes or heart failure that the patient does not want to change his life habits to improve
The fact that his family doesn’t want an autopsy tells me they are not surprised at his passing
All the conspiracy nuts here need to cool their jets. This type of pronouncement happens every single day of the week in all states. Remove Scalia’s name and this is a meh story
Ingrown toenail could be a chronic condition. If it had been life-threatening conditions or conditions that would add to the diagnosis, this democrat judge would have said so, since she had no qualms about divulging medical information such as the MRI for his shoulder. The fact that she didn’t tells us that those conditions were unrelated.
Furthermore, a person doesn’t die quietly in their sleep from a heart attack. If they die quietly in their sleep from a heart condition it’s probably cardiac arrhythmia, and that doesn’t happen to somebody in their sleep if they haven’t had heart surgery (I’ve heard no reports of him having heart surgery and that would certainly have been mentioned by the judge if it had been the case), haven’t been very ill (and he was not feeling sick as originally claimed and was OK’ed to go hunting just a couple days earlier), or are exposed to arrhythmia-inducing chemicals - which is the most reasonable explanation left, and what the judge should have been looking out for. Of course, not being a doctor she should have ordered the autopsy and left medicine to the people who do medicine.
At the very least she should be arrested for practicing medicine without a license.
Are you a medical person?
If not, see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3397112/posts?page=106#106
This judge should not be playing doctor when the fate of the USA hangs in the balance. If this same thing happened to Barack Obama would it be just another ho-hum thing, nothing wrong with a Republican judge saying no autopsy was necessary?