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I have been called to testify as a forensic pathology expert in many legal cases in Texas. I know about the laws that govern death investigation in that state.
It came as no surprise to me that Justice Scalia, found cold and pulseless in bed with a pillow "over his head," was declared dead of natural causes without an autopsy being performed. I was not shocked to hear that a county justice of the peace agreed to issue the death certificate without visiting the death scene or seeing the body for herself. Justice Scalia's unexamined death points to a problem - CNN.com
This is a current topic because his cause of death is still in question.
Justice Kennedy (who everyone knew was the pivotal vote, since both Ginsburg and Kagan openly advertised before the Hearing of Obergefell how they would Rule, Sotomayor was a given and Breyer always does waht Kennedy does) cited his reasons for passing Obergefell ( I say "passing" because what the Court did was legislate, not interpret; they added language to the Constitution in order to interpret their Finding). His reasons in a nutshell were "so that children's parents could be married". If polyamorists or incest couples (both sexual orientations/intimate lifestyle choices between consenting adults) have children, would Kennedy's logic mean then he could also defy the states' sovereignty and force them to "help those children" by allowing their parents to marry as well?
When you say you have a heart to help children, does that mean just some special ones, or all of them?
And, does that also mean you set up a legal bind where they will not know either a mother or father for life?
I suspect Justice Scalia knew all of this as a very sharp legal mind. It's my personal theory that Obergefell ultimately killed Justice Scalia. I think he felt powerless to stop one of the most damaging legal decisions in human history.
Though it is curious why there was no autopsy done. It seems one of our leaders who only loses power when he dies would need to have an autopsy so that in the future other Justices might not actually perish "from natural causes" without an examination. That kind of trend can catch on in an autocratic state: such as the one our country is slowly but surely becoming.
It could be though that it was obviously a suicide. And letting the nation know a Justice had committed suicide would cause them to go into shock and wonder why? So I got to thinking, if it was suicide, what was bothering him so deeply at that point in his life?