Posted on 02/15/2016 12:17:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died, deeply mourned by his friends and admirers, while liberals are happily celebrating his demise (in their usual indecent fashion). La Raza, radical environmentalists, and the affirmative action establishment are celebrating today.
Scalia's sudden death leaves a 4-4 split on the Court, neutralizing the power of the Court until a ninth justice is confirmed. But Obama might try to make a recess appointment, thereby sabotaging the Senate's advice and consent role. He has already done that with the fraud-filled Iranian nuclear surrender "treaty."
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Justice Scalia's sudden passing may have been due to natural causes. But for the first time since the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King, Jr., many Americans are sincerely wondering what might have happened. They are not just on the paranoid fringe.
President Obama is constantly claiming unconstitutional powers, something that Justice Scalia opposed with all the intellectual force at his command. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court itself has come under serious criticism ever since Chief Justice Roberts issued self-contradictory opinions favoring Obamacare. Hillary Clinton is being credibly accused of national security felonies as secretary of state, and the DOJ and FBI are said to be at odds on indicting Hillary. If she becomes president, there is likely to be a bloodbath in the permanent government in D.C. A perfect storm is rising in American politics.
As we can tell from the jubilation on the left, Justice Scalia had hateful enemies, and he must have received death threats, which the FBI must now re-examine. The American public must also know on whose authority an obviously necessary post-mortem examination was avoided. The best way to restore public trust is to appoint a bipartisan congressional committee to oversee a medical pathology team.
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That bit of the law seems to indicate that the law was NOT followed, doesn’t it?
Its too late the man has been embalmed.
Perhaps the family felt threatened. Oh wait.... That stuff doesn’t happen in America.
Thanks. I tend to think he died “naturally”...but as you point out, there are some odd circumstances that kind of beg for clarity.
Embalming does not significantly affect the autopsy. It does not affect toxicology results since they are done on the tissues and in many cases embalming will aid in the autopsy if there is a long delay between the time of death and the autopsy.
Look it up.
An inquest is an inquiry to determine the cause of death and if an autopsy is needed or not-the spokesperson for the funeral home stated that there was no evidence of foul play, and stated that Scalia died of natural causes-heart failure/heart attack-I’m pretty sure heart failure is still a natural cause...
I’ve lived in a remote area most of my life-most people die at home here, not in some facility, and so are not attended by a physician-so unless it was suicide, or there is suspected foul play, there is no autopsy unless the family requests it-most families dislike the idea, believing it disrespectful to the deceased unless there is a real reason for it.
No, it does not-the examiner at the funeral home said there were no signs of foul play, and that doesn’t change, whether or not the death was unattended-so their inquiry indicated no need for an autopsy-and the family said no.
If every unattended death that was not foul play or suicide required an autopsy, that would be just more ridiculous and intrusive government-take care what you wish for...
Scalia is (was) not "most people" (he was one of the 10 most powerful people on the planet) and Scalia did not die at home.
I can only say that in those first hours after a death the idea of an autopsy hurts. Unless you suspect something, many people just want to get their loved one to the funeral home as soon as possible so they can see him again.
That has nothing to do with it-the fact that he was important and powerful does not make his mortal remains the property of anyone but his family when there is no evidence to support murder, accidental injury, drowning or any other unnatural cause of death, whether he died at home, at a guest ranch, on a hiking trail or in a brothel in Reno-although that last would certainly be sensational...
The government here and the public do not own the remains of anyone who has not signed a donor card unless an inquiry finds there is evidence of foul play or other unnatural means of demise.
You think if Putin had been visiting that ranch and ended up in the same position as Scalia, that there would not have been an investigation?
You think if Hillary had been there and died under those same circumstances, that there wouldn’t have been an in depth investigation?
How about Netanyahu?
Scalia was the most powerful constitutional conservative in the United States. He stood in the way of Obama’s “Fundamental Transformation” of the United States of America. His continued existence was a threat to this administration’s grand designs.
If you don’t think an investigation into his death is warranted, then you have never studied history.
I don’t know.
Missed it. Wasn’t able to tune in in time. What did he say?
Supreme court judge dies suddenly in a hotel room. I think there should be an autopsy. If he had died at home or in a hospital, I wouldn’t think so much.
I didn’t write that I have quotes from the family members. I wrote, “I’ve read at least three articles that said the Judge’s family did not want an autopsy.”
If you’ll google scalia family autopsy you can find lots of links.
Isn’t Scalia’s seat reserved for white male conservatives?
What I think is that his family’s wishes must be respected, since there is no reason to suspect anything nefarious. Most of the people clamoring for an investigation and autopsy are not interested in anything but furthering a conspiracy theory-they are locked in on that-it would not matter if nothing at all is found, they will never, ever let go of their convictions.
If Netanyahu died over here under any circumstances, Israel would likely declare war, given the animosity between him and Obama. The same thing with Russia and Vlad Putin dying here-they’d arm the nukes as soon as they had his remains-no autopsy here-they’d do their own.
If Hillary ever went quail hunting at a guest ranch, that would be reason enough for some kind of investigation-if she were found dead, Bill would have her cremated and scattered as soon as he got ahold of her remains-and no autopsy.
Scalia was not those people-and the public and government still does not overrule a family when there is no evidence of foul play-the rights of the family should prevail, not the morbid curiosity of the public-that is overdone as it is.
Do not make assumptions, please-I’ve been a student of history since I was about 5-especially military history and weapons before about 1500-I’m particularly fond of Rome, and post Roman Britain
Interesting. I didn’t know what procedures were standard, but if those you cite were followed, there should be enough to get the info needed. Thanks for the insight.
Savage told Trump he thought something didn’t seem right about Scalia’s death. Trump really was more interested in saying Cruz lies.
“As a former homicide commander, I am stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia,” William O. Ritchie, former head of criminal investigations for D.C. police, wrote in a post on Facebook on Sunday...
No $#!+ Sherlock!
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