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If flags in DC and at the WH in particular are flying at half staff in regards to the passing of Justice Ginsburg?
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Does anyone know (Original Post)
Ohiogal
Sep 2020
OP
There was a DU post about Pelosi doing this earlier today and google has it, too.
SharonClark
Sep 2020
#3
LakeArenal
(28,728 posts)1. I read Pelosi has ordered so on the Congressional Hall.
I figured she would do that.
Wondering about the WH in particular recalling how Asshole didnt want them lowered when McCain passed.
SharonClark
(10,005 posts)3. There was a DU post about Pelosi doing this earlier today and google has it, too.
Ohiogal
(31,658 posts)4. Thank you
Yonnie3
(17,376 posts)5. It was ordered
From the White House https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-death-ruth-bader-ginsburg/
Proclamation on the Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Issued on: September 19, 2020
<snip>
As a mark of respect for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the United States, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including section 7 of title 4, United States Code, that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and on all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, on the day of interment. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same period at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fifth.
Issued on: September 19, 2020
<snip>
As a mark of respect for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the United States, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including section 7 of title 4, United States Code, that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and on all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, on the day of interment. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same period at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fifth.