First of all, the pillow thing appears to have been a misunderstanding. The sheriff of Presidio County, Danny Dominguez, clarified in an interview with the Daily Mail. (Calls to Dominguez from The Post were not returned by deadline.) “[Scalia] was just lying on the bed with a pillow above his head,” Dominguez said, with our added emphasis. “Everything seemed normal and he was just there lying down. There was no sign of a struggle, no wrinkles in the cover or on the pillow either.”

But, second: Doctors we spoke with suggested that finding a 79-year-old man dead in bed was hardly abnormal — even if there were a pillow over his head.

“Right when I heard the report,” said Asim Roy, medical director at the Ohio Sleep Medicine Institute, “the first thing — my expertise is in sleep apnea — someone dies in their sleep in the early-morning hours, sleep apnea is usually number one on the list as a potential explanation for the heart attack or for a stroke or whatever ended up killing him. It would go hand-in-hand with what we tend to see across the population.” Speculation is that Scalia died of a heart attack; heart attacks were the most common cause of death in his age group in 2013. But Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara, who pronounced Scalia dead without seeing the body, told The Post: “It wasn’t a heart attack. He died of natural causes.”