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Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead of apparent natural causes Saturday on a luxury resort in West Texas, federal officials said.
Scalia, 79, was a guest at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, a resort in the Big Bend region south of Marfa.
According to a report, Scalia arrived at the ranch on Friday and attended a private party with about 40 people. When he did not appear for breakfast, a person associated with the ranch went to his room and found a body.
Even Supreme Court Justices do not live forever. LORD have mercy!
Yes, but instead of calling the police and having a coroner investigation along with a blood test, the mortuary was called. Will this be a quick burial to hide evidence.
It could have been foul play because Scalia was one of the few Pro-Life judges.
Yes, but instead of calling the police and having a coroner investigation along with a blood test, the mortuary was called. Will this be a quick burial to hide evidence.
It could have been foul play because Scalia was one of the few Pro-Life judges.
The County sheriff was called. The federal marshals were there also. In Texas there is not a coroner to investigate. Small counties generally contract with the larger counties for medical examiner purposes. In these smaller counties, the bodies will almost always be moved to a funeral home pending transport to a medical examiner. On top of which, if the body isn't under police custody, his family could order an autopsy if they wish. But given that he is an old guy with chronic medical problems, why would they.
Antonin Scalia was just one of six Roman Catholic justices on the Supreme Court, but in his devotion to the faith he was second to none. Neighbors saw him and his wife Maureen worshipping frequently at St. Catherine of Siena in Great Falls, Va., a church Scalia was said to favor because it was one of the few Catholic parishes in the Washington, D.C., area that still offered a Latin mass.
Scalia received his secondary and undergraduate education at Jesuit institutions, and as a justice he told students that as a young Catholic he endured meatless Fridays and fasting before Communion because the church had taught him and his peers "that we were different." While other couples had small families, Scalia and his wife raised nine children. "Being a devout Catholic means you have children when God gives them to you," he told his biographer Joan Biskupic.