With flags in Texas and Alabama ordered to full-staff for the presidential inauguration Monday — along with the U.S. Capitol flags — Gov. Spencer Cox must decide whether Utah will follow suit. Why it matters: Flags were lowered to half-staff nationwide for 30 days of mourning after the Dec.

Utah joins a growing number of Republican-led states to raise American flags to full-staff for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week amid a monthlong period of mourning for the death of late Democratic President Jimmy Carter.

The president-elect had expressed concern that Democrats seemed happy to see the flag lowered during the inauguration ceremony despite the tradition of lowering flags after a president's death.