Whether Auer deference applies to the Sentencing Guidelines

QUESTION PRESENTED 1.) Whether, as the Courts of Appeals for the Third' and Sixth Circuits have held, in conflict with the decision below’ and decisions of the Fifth* and Eleventh’ Circuits, this Court’s ' Kisor® decision proscribes the federal courts from granting “Auer’ deference” to the Commentary and Application Notes to the Sentencing Guidelines only if a regulation is genuinely ambiguous and, even then, not when the réasons for that presumption do not apply or when countervailing reasons outweigh them? ' United States v. Nasir, 982 F.3d 144 * | 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 37489 ** (3 Cir, 12-1-20). ? See United States v. Riccardi, 989 F.3d 476, 484 (6" Cir. 2021). > United States v. Melkonyan, 831 Fed. Appx. 319-320; 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 39305 **2 (9 Cir, 12-15-20). (