EL PASO -- An El Paso source close to Justice Antonin Scalia tells ABC-7 that the 79-year-old died in his sleep last night after a day of quail hunting at Cibolo Creek Ranch outside of Marfa, Texas.
The Justice did not report feeling ill and retired to his room after dinner. The source, who was traveling with Scalia, told ABC-7 an El Paso priest has been called to Marfa.
Scalia was the longest-serving current Justice on the Supreme Court. He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986.
Any hope the Senate has the guts to hold out for a decent justice with the elections this close??? Unlikely.
Nope and they will confirm whoever the king puts on the block.
Boehner has said that a nomination should wait till after the election. I hope he sticks to his guns.
Boehner has said that a nomination should wait till after the election. I hope he sticks to his guns.
Who is this boner you speak of?
I haven't read anything from Mitch Mcconnell on this , so that's all that I've got. I sure as hell hope Mcconnell doesn't back down.
Guevara acknowledged to the Post that she pronounced Scalia dead over the phone on Saturday without seeing his body. She told WFAA she had planned to head to the ranch but that a U.S. Marshal told her over the phone, *It’s not necessary for you to come, judge. If you’re asking for an autopsy, that’s what we need to clarify.*
Guevara told the station before deciding that she wanted details of Scalia’s death.
*As part of my investigation one of the things I did ask the sheriff and the U.S. Marshal: ‘Were there any signs of foul play? And they said, ‘Absolutely not.’ At that time, I still wanted to be careful and asked them if [Scalia’s] physician would call me,* Guevara told WFAA.
When Scalia’s doctor called Guevara at 8 p.m. Saturday, she told the station that the doctor told her Scalia *had just visited on Wednesday and Thursday, and [the doctor] had done an MRI, then I felt comfortable what I knew was going on with him physically.* She added to WFAA that Scalia also suffered from several chronic ailments.
*He was having health issues,* Guevara told the Post, adding that she’s waiting for a statement from Scalia’s doctor to add to his death certificate when it’s issued later this week.
The Post reported that another justice of the peace was called but couldn’t get to Scalia’s body in time — and that she would have made a different decision. *If it had been me … I would want to know,* Juanita Bishop, a justice of the peace in Presidio, Texas, told the paper in a Sunday interview.
But Guevara cited Texas laws that permit a justice of the peace to declare someone dead without seeing the body, the Post said.
"We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled," said Poindexter.
"He was lying very restfully. It looked like he had not quite awakened from a nap," he said.
Scalia,79, did not have a pulse and his body was cold, and after consulting with a doctor at a hospital in Alpine, Poindexter concluded resuscitation would have been futile, He then contacted federal authorities, at first encountering a series of answering services because he was calling on a weekend.