The whole thing after Scalia was discovered dead was mishandled by “authorities.” Presidio County, TX is small, poor, mostly Mexican. The Presidio ME, a local GP, saw “no need” for autopsy when asked by phone, never saw the remains. The body was taken to an El Paso funeral home, and if an autopsy were to be done, news reports said it would be done at that funeral home (!) by an El Paso med examiner.
I simply do not understand why his body was not flown to DC for autopsy at the Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, or by the DC people.
Found dead at 11 am, was given the Last Rites at 3 pm….

Come November the (D)s will make history again, because, ya know, they’re on the “right side of history” (the irony), and the USA will have its first female POTUS. All the LIV see Cruz as extreme, though not Sanders, and will either cast their vote for Trump or Rubio if they decide to go GOP.

As for preserving “the balance of the Court”, I remember that kind of talk when Souter was nominated to replace Brennan. It’s loser talk. It’s a failure to make the case. The Supreme Court isn’t supposed to be balanced between the parties. The proper “balance” of the Court is 9 constitutionalists. The Court should be a balance against the voice of the people as expressed through the judicial and executive branches. Constitutional amendments are supposed to be the balance against the Court. That’s the argument we should be having, not an argument in favor of optimal stalling tactics.

I believe he died of natural causes, but, sans autopsy, doubts will linger.

Will the GOP stand firm against the pressure from the media and the Democrats to let Obama have a third pick? It is hard to hold out hope, given the GOP’s willingness to give in to progressives at every juncture.

I crunched the numbers, and in only ONE of the instances that writer pointed out was it less than one year from the time justice died until the next inauguration. So I think this little writer was being rather disingenuous. Of course, what can u you expect from those who carry the Democrats water?

This time, we’re looking at 314 days.

It seems when there is an important event it breaks for the Democrats. Almost as if fate is against the conservative cause.

Still looking forward to President Rodham.

Scalia may well have died of natural causes. Given the circumstances cited, determining the actual cause of death through an autopsy is a no-brainer, yes? Yet what we’re supposed to accept on faith is that, ‘there’s nothing to see here folks, now move along’. And every action in the aftermath creates an absolute zone of silence around his death. No conspiracies are needed to find that disturbing.

I know Pender *very* well.

While the case, on its face, appears to be about the boundary of a the Omaha Indian reservation combined with statutory and case law interpretation, it is way, way more. If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse, we are looking at Indians being able to tax non-Indians on real estate where they had no presence for 130 years. The kicker is that non-Indians can’t even vote in the Tribe’s elections!

This case is not as important as some, but it could be earth-shattering. Sonia and Elena sounded like they favored the Tribe. Back to blood.

I think he died of natural causes. But I also think they should have done an autopsy to silence at least some of the conspiracy theories (you’ll never silence them all, of course).