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Flags will fly at half-staff to honor Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Saturday.
President Barack Obama ordered national and state flags to fly at half-staff. The order covers flags at the state Capitol and all state offices and agencies, as well as the Hawaii National Guard.
The flags will fly at half-staff until sunset on the day of interment.
On Sunday a procession of law enforcement officers escorted Scalia’s body to a funeral home in El Paso, Texas.
Chris Lujan, a manager for Sunset Funeral Homes, said about 20 law enforcement officers arrived at the funeral home during the early morning. The procession traveled for more than three hours from the West Texas resort ranch where Scalia, 79, was found dead in his room Saturday morning. Lujan said that if an autopsy is requested by Scalia’s family or ordered by a justice of the peace, then an El Paso County medical examiner would likely perform it at the funeral home.
Tentative plans call for Scalia’s body to be flown Tuesday back home to his family in a northern Virginia suburb.