“Rowan County prayer lawsuit returns to 4th Circuit Court of Appeals”: Josh Bergeron of The Salisbury (N.C.) Post has this report.

And Alanna Durkin Richer of The Associated Press reports that “Court asks who should lead prayer before government meeting.”

You can access via this link (57.7 MB mp3 audio file) the audio of yesterday’s oral argument before the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in this appeal.

“Gorsuch on Chevron deference”: Eric Posner has this blog post today.

“Democrats Plan to Filibuster to Thwart Gorsuch Nomination”: Matt Flegenheimer, Charlie Savage, and Adam Liptak will have this article in Friday’s edition of The New York Times.

And Robert Barnes, Ed O’Keefe, and Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post have an article headlined “Schumer: Democrats will filibuster Gorsuch nomination.”

Programming note: Later today, I will be traveling to Minneapolis, where tomorrow I will be delivering the keynote address at the Minnesota State Bar Association’s 11th Annual Appellate Practice Institute. As a result, additional posts will not appear here until tonight.

In the interim, as is often the case while I am traveling, appellate-related retweets are likely to appear on this blog’s Twitter feed.

“Gun dealers argue against Alameda County restrictions on stores”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

You can access at this link via YouTube the video of yesterday’s oral argument before an 11-judge en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

“J. Gorsuch Will Be Awful on #SCOTUS for Progressives. Democrats Should Not Filibuster Him.” Rick Hasen has this post at his “Election Law Blog.”

“Democrats Fail to Move Gorsuch Off Script and Beyond Generalities”: Adam Liptak and Matt Flegenheimer have this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Supreme Court Justice Confirmation Hearing, Day 4”: Via C-SPAN, you can view today’s proceedings live, online at this link.