Sheriff: 911 caller wouldn’t say person who died was Scalia

The top elected official in the Texas county where Scalia was found dead says the U.S. Supreme Court justice died of natural causes.

And voila! Another conspiracy theory was birthed.

Had Scalia died in another state with stricter rules about death investigations, the conspiracy theories might never have had a chance to blossom. He had a pillow over his head, not over his face as some have been saying.

Jones is famous (or infamous) about town – and nationally – for his extreme views.

Savage made the query on his radio show Savage Nation.

As Washington prepared for Scalia’s body to lie in repose at the Supreme Court on Friday, questions lingered about his final trip. We need an immediate autopsy before the body is disposed of.

“Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes”, Starmann writes. They’re like high school girls convinced the Abby Road album cover is trying to tell them Paul is dead. “With Scalia’s death, the Obama Administration or a future Hillary Clinton Administration has a green door to confiscate guns, flood the country with illegals and wreck the Constitution”. She initially said Scalia died of a heart attack but later said only that he died of natural causes.

Is an autopsy required for unattended deaths? Then he concluded there was no foul play.

In a statement Tuesday, the owner of the ranch clarified to CNN what he meant when he told the San Antonio Express the judge was found with a “pillow over his head”. “His bed clothes were unwrinkled”, Poindexter said. Families, too, can request autopsies, but the Scalia family was against having one performed. Savage asked the Republican front-runner.

“We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head”.

TRUMP: Well I just heard today and that just a little while ago actually – you know I just landed and I’m hearing it’s a big topic – that’s the question.

“It’s a disgusting topic, but they say they found a pillow on his face, which is a pretty unusual place to find a pillow”, Trump said in an interview Monday with conservative radio host Michael Savage.

Scalia, 79, was found dead in his room at a hunting lodge after he failed to show up for breakfast Saturday morning.

Can a county judge fill in for a justice of the peace?

Bronson Tucker, an attorney for the Texas Justice Court Training Center, which trains justices of the peace, said that Presidio County officials appeared to have properly followed Texas law in deciding against an autopsy.

Back in Austin, the daily newspaper of record also inadvertently advances the theories in noting the discrepancies surrounding details of Scalia’s death.

State law gives county judges the authority to handle death inquests in the absence of justices of the peace, it doesn’t prohibit death inquests from being done over the phone, and it doesn’t require autopsies for unattended deaths.

In the meantime, another debate rages as conservative politicians say that a replacement for the Supreme Court should not be decided upon until a new president is elected, an argument that the U-T Editorial Board called “an insult to Scalia and America”.