“Despite Filibuster Limits, a Door Remains Open to Block Judge Nominees”: Charlie Savage will have this article in Friday’s edition of The New York Times.

And online at The New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin on Tuesday had a blog post titled “Blue-Slip Battle: The Senate Obstructionists’ Secret Weapon.”

“Supreme Court justices compete in rare contest; Sitting chief justice, challenger both have record favoring open government”: Today’s edition of The Greenville (S.C.) News contains this front page article.

“Court considering second major gun law; La. drug-gun statute latest to face review”: This front page article appears today in The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Lord Jonathan Sumption of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom recently delivered the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture in Kuala Lumpur on “The Limits of Law”: The UK Supreme Court posted the text of the lecture online today.

At his blog “Public law for everyone,” Dr. Mark Elliott has a post titled “Lord Sumption on the limits of the judicial role.”

Last month, The Star of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia previewed the event in an article headlined “British Supreme Court judge to speak at law lecture.”

“FISA court, which approves FBI, NSA surveillance, faces reform challenge from Oregon senators”: The Oregonian has published this lengthy article.

“Autocam lawyers are pleased even as Supreme Court won’t hear their challenge to Obamacare”: The Grand Rapids Press has this report.

“Laying down the Laws: human rights court shouldn’t have last word; Longest-serving appeal judge, Sir John Laws, questions Lord Bingham’s rule that Strasbourg is final authority on convention.” Joshua Rozenberg of The Guardian (UK) has this report on yesterday’s third lecture of the Hamlyn Lectures 2013.

The Guardian also has a second report on the speech headlined “Stop deferring to human rights court, says senior judge; Lord Justice Laws makes speech likely to find favour in Downing Street and among Eurosceptic Conservatives.”

“Christian guesthouse owners lose appeal over right to bar gay couples; Supreme court dismisses claim by Peter and Hazelmary Bull that right to manifest religious beliefs was breached”: The Guardian (UK) has this report.

And BBC News has a report headlined “Gay snub Cornish B&B owners lose Supreme Court appeal; The Christian owners of a guesthouse who were ordered to pay damages for turning away a gay couple have lost their UK Supreme Court fight.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom at this link. The court also issued this press summary of its ruling.

“Doesn’t Eat, Doesn’t Pray and Doesn’t Love”: Online at The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse has an essay that begins, “The question of whether for-profit companies can claim a religious identity, one that exempts them from obeying a generally applicable law, is fully worthy of the attention the Supreme Court is about to give it.”