“Epstein’s Final Days: Celebrity Reminiscing and a Running Toilet; Newly released records show the disgraced financier living a mundane existence in jail before his suicide, while also spinning deceptions until the very end.” Benjamin Weiser, Matthew Goldstein, Danielle Ivory, and Steve Eder of The New York Times have this report.

“Suing cops takes forever because they get 3 chances to appeal. Why should they? You’re supposed to be able to sue for violations of your rights. But qualified immunity upends the usual process and can stall cases for years.” Raffi Melkonian has this essay online at USA Today.

“Biden administration asks appeals court to reinstate OSHA vaccine mandate”: Tierney Sneed of CNN has this report.

You can access the federal government’s Emergency Motion to Dissolve Stay, filed this morning in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, at this link.

“Supreme Court Rules Against Mississippi in Water-Rights Case; State had argued that the city of Memphis, Tenn., was pumping too much from an underground aquifer that extended under its territory”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

And John Fritze of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court backs Tennessee in water rights dispute with Mississippi.”

Yesterday, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in Mississippi v. Tennessee, No. 143, Orig.