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Doctor: Scalia Suffered From Heart Disease and Diabetes

CAUSE OF DEATH

SCOTUS doctor reveals the jurist's ailments.

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A letter from the Supreme Court's official doctor reveals that late Justice Antonin Scalia suffered from a variety of ailments—including coronary artery disease, obesity and diabetes—at the time of his death ten days ago. The district attorney for the Texas county in which Scalia died cited the letter as proof there was nothing suspicious about his passing.

Read it at Associated Press