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Originally Posted by davephan21
Flags at half staff for 2 days is standard when a senator dies.
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President bare minimum really showing respect. And it's almost like we have evidence of when he had the flag lowered for longer periods of time.
"During former President Barack Obama's time in office, four sitting senators died while he was in office: Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts in 2009, Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia in 2010, Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii in 2012 and Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey in 2013.
Obama signed proclamations for Kennedy, Byrd and Inouye, and those proclamations lowered flags to half staff until the days they were buried. The Obama White House archives don't include a proclamation for Lautenberg, though per his obituary by the Associated Press, the flag did fly at half-staff at the White House for an unspecified amount of time.
Additionally, when Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in 2016 – the first time a justice died in office in more than 50 years – Obama signed a proclamation on the day of his death, ordering flags lowered until his burial.
Trump has spurred debate over his decisions on when and when not to lower the flag, especially in the wake of mass shootings. He has issued proclamations over massacres in Las Vegas and Parkland, Florida. After the newsroom shooting at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, he drew criticism for not initially bringing the flags to half staff. He ultimately lowered them five days after the shooting.
But he has also lowered the flag for other public figures. Notably, when former first lady Barbara Bush died, Trump issued a proclamation in her honor – keeping the flags at half staff until the day she was buried."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ff/1108717002/