Mysterious Death

From the Washington Post (HT LRC):

Two days after Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died suddenly in remote West Texas, a former D.C. homicide commander is raising questions about how the death was handled by local and federal authorities.

“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.

“You have a Supreme Court Justice who died, not in attendance of a physician,” he wrote. “You have a non-homicide trained US Marshal tell the justice of peace that no foul play was observed. You have a justice of the peace pronounce death while not being on the scene and without any medical training opining that the justice died of a heart attack. What medical proof exists of a myocardial Infarction? Why not a cerebral hemorrhage?”

I am not an expert in the voting records of the various justices.  I take as reported that Scalia is one of the more conservative justices.  I also take it as reported that the court is pretty evenly divided 5-4 on ideological lines.  Although I am not sure any of this matters (when was the last time the court struck down anything meaningful?), the circumstances are still curious.

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The article references several of the aforementioned cases.

Conclusion

Someone with more knowledge than I have on Scalia, his leanings, etc., will probably write about the impact of his death on these cases.

Maybe his death is irrelevant to these.  Maybe it is just a coincidence.

Reprinted with permission from Bionic Mosquito.

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