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GLOSSED OVER: Key Questions Emerge After the Death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
21st Century Wire asks…
What really happened in the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia?
With the United States deep in the throes of the 2016 presidential primaries, the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, has provided a controversial backdrop to an already tense election season.
Reports state that the 79-year-old conservative justice was found dead this past Saturday in his hotel room at Cibolo Creek Ranch, a luxury ranch within Presidio County, Texas.
The San Antonio Express-News reported that ranch owner, John Poindexter, discovered Scalia’s body three hours after first visiting the deceased jurist’s hotel room at 8:30 in the morning on Saturday:
“We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled,” the Cibolo Ranch owner told reporters on Monday. “He was lying very restfully. It looked like he had not quite awakened from a nap.”
As several days have now passed, various theories have surfaced in the aftermath of Scalia’s death, causing Poindexter to further clarify his eyewitness account with the Daily News:
“There was a pillow over his head, not over his face,” said Poindexter. “The face was entirely clear.”
One of the most troubling aspects of Scalia’s death, aside from lack of an autopsy being performed or that Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara pronounced the manner of his death over the phone without being present, was the fact that Justice Scalia was a key vote that temporarily blocked the Clean Power Plan crafted by the White House, a set of new EPA climate regulations, as reported by The Atlantic:
“On Tuesday [February 9th], the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the rules should neither be implemented nor enforced until the high court itself heard their opponents’ case. This was itself unprecedented: Never before had the Supreme Court stayed a set of regulations before a federal court even heard the initial case about them.”
Many questions still remain in the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia – which will no doubt prompt speculation well into the foreseeable future.
No More Fake News reports below…
‘TIPPING THE BALANCE’ – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. (Photo dallasnews)
By John Rappoport
Let’s jump right in with quotes from the Washington Post, 2/15, “Conspiracy theories swirl around the death of Antonin Scalia”. The Post published extraordinary statements from the Facebook page of “William O. Ritchie, former head of criminal investigations for D.C. police”:
“As a former homicide commander, I am stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia.”
“You have a Supreme Court Justice who died, not in attendance of a physician. 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?”
“How can the Marshal say, without a thorough post mortem, that he was not injected with an illegal substance that would simulate a heart attack…”
“Did the US Marshal check for petechial hemorrhage in his eyes or under his lips that would have suggested suffocation? Did the US Marshal smell his breath for any unusual odor that might suggest poisoning? My gut tells me there is something fishy going on in Texas.”
If this isn’t enough, the Post goes on:
“Scalia’s physician, Brian Monahan, is a U.S. Navy rear admiral and the attending physician for the U.S. Congress and Supreme Court. He declined to comment on Scalia’s [prior] health when reached by telephone Monday at his home in Maryland.
“’Patient confidentiality forbids me to make any comment on the subject,’ he said.”
“When asked whether he planned to make public the statement he’s preparing for [Texas Judge] Guevara, Monahan repeated the same statement and hung up on a reporter.”
As long as no law-enforcement investigation of Scalia’s death is launched, the doctor is justified. Confidentiality applies, unless Scalia’s family lifts it. But if such an investigation is opened, all bets are off. Confidentiality no longer applies.
There are reports that, after Scalia’s body was transported from the celebrity ranch in Texas, closely guarded and shielded by a bevy of marshals, it was rapidly embalmed. If so, that would apparently make toxicological tests far more difficult or impossible.
As for a murder motive, try: upsetting the voting balance of the US Supreme Court. Try: a push to appoint a new Justice now, thus ensuring the appointee’s political persuasion, regardless of the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election.
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Source: http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/02/17/glossed-over-key-questions-emerge-after-the-death-of-supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia/
