writing for the court's three liberal justices, justice sonja sotomayor, issuing a primal scream kind of warning for her colleagues saying they have dramatically and dangerously expanded the power of the presidency creating a quote, lawfully bound president. from the scorching dissent, the president of the united states is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. when he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority's reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. orders the navy's seal team 6 to assassinate a political rival? immune. organizes a military coup to hold on to power? immune. takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? immune, immune, immune, immune. even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and i pray they never do, the damage has been done. the relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably and in every use of official power, the president is now a king, a king above the law. never in the history of our republic has a president had reason to believe that he would be immune from cr

home of supreme court justice sonja sotomayor. it happened over the hollywood weekend, the suspect taken into custody after he was shot by a u.s. marshal assigned to protect the supreme court justice. erin mclaughlin joins us with the latest. >> reporter: good morning, craig. this brazen attack happened hours after 4th of july celebrations in the capitol. carjackings are a persistent problem here in d.c., and law enforcement has been cracking down, but a source close to the investigation tells nbc news they believe this carjacking attempt was random and not related to the supreme court justice. this morning an investigation is underway in washington, d.c. after a u.s. marshal shot a suspected carjacker near the home of supreme court justice sonja sotomayor. the incident happened in the early morning on this block of the nation's capital hours after the fourth of july fireworks. police arrested suspect 18-year-old kentrell flowers. two deputies who were a part of the unit that protects the homes of justices were sitting in an unmar

marshal shot a suspected carjacker near the home of supreme court justice sonja sotomayor.happened on this block in the nation's capitol, hours after the 4th of july fireworks. police arrested suspect 18-year-old kentrell flowers. who's charged with armed carjacking. two deputies who were a part of the unit that protects the homes of justices were sitting in an unmarked government vehicle when, according to a federal complaint, flowers stopped directly next to them in a silver minivan, got out and pointed this firearm to the front driver's side window. according to the complaint, one marshal fired approximately four times at flowers, hitting him in the mouth. the silver van fled the scene as the marshals provided first aid to flowers. the incident, the latest in a series of high-po file carjackings in the capital. earlier this year, a former trump administration official was shot during a carjacking. he later died, according to a statement released by the family. and late last year in nearby georgetown, two teenagers were arrested for allegedly breaking into the car of the

. >> you are a clerk for sonja -- justice sotomayor. made the point in her dissent that every president prior to donald trump, everyone of them, assumed that criminal law applied to them. everyone of them. they weren't inhibited in any way as presidents as law abiding people are not the fact that the law applies to them. how do you think that justice sotomayor has been dealing with this opinion and the length of time it took to put it out and what can you imagine going on inside the court to take this long? >> i don't think we have to imagine it. i think she said a few weeks ago when she received the radcliffe metal where she said that there are days when she goes back to her office and cries and does this because the court in which she is a member has done things so shocking and beyond the pale that it begs the leaf and i think this is one of those days. she chose to read this from the bench and that is an unusual step that they take they do only when it's necessary to impress upon the public how monumental the majority's views are and