Open letter to Barack Obama

Since the 1980s, the President has been in charge of enforcing the Flag Code in the District of Columbia and at military installations.

The Flag Code is available at https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title4/html/USCODE-2011-title4-chap1.htm .

The flag should be flown at half-staff for an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, a member of the Cabinet, a former Vice President, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Majority Leader of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, or the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives: from the day of death until interment.