The Latest: Bush: Senate court vote 'not important' to him
By Associated Press
Feb 14, 2016 1:13 PM CST
This photo shows the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, as the sun rises Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016. Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the Supreme Court, has died. He was 79. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)   (Associated Press)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on developments following the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (all times local):

11:20 a.m.

Jeb Bush says it doesn't matter to him whether Senate Republicans vote on a Supreme Court nominee President Barack Obama may send to Capitol Hill to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

Bush tells CNN's "State of the Union" that the decision is up to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — who's said there will be no such vote until Obama leaves office in January.

The Republican presidential candidate says it's "really not important to me" whether there's a vote before then.

That sentiment isn't shared by Bush's Republican presidential rivals. Soon after Scalia's death, they were demanding that a prospective Obama nominee not get a vote.

Bush says Obama has "every right" to submit a nominee to the Senate. But the former Florida governor says he doesn't think Obama would nominate someone who's "in the mainstream." He said that if Obama sends a nominee who's out of what Bush considers "the mainstream," Senate leaders should block or reject the nomination.

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10 a.m.

The body of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been taken to a funeral home in El Paso, Texas, where officials are waiting to hear whether an autopsy will be performed.

Chris Lujan (loo-HAHN') — a manager for Sunset Funeral Homes — says a procession that included about 20 law enforcement officers arrived early Sunday at the funeral home.

The procession traveled more than three hours from the West Texas resort ranch where Scalia was found dead in his room on Saturday morning.

Lujan says if an autopsy is ordered by Scalia's family or a justice of the peace, then it likely will be performed at the funeral home by an El Paso County medical examiner.

Lujan says tentative plans call for Scalia's body to be flown back home Tuesday to his family in Virginia.

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9:45 a.m.

A proclamation from President Barack Obama orders flags to be flown at half-staff "as a mark of respect" for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

The order applies to the White House, Supreme Court and other public buildings and grounds in the nation's capital and elsewhere in the country.

The order is in effect until sunset on the day of Scalia's interment.

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This story corrects Jeb Bush's quote to "really not important to me," not "it's not important to me."

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