justice sonia sotomayor delivering a blistering dissent, writing the decision makes a mockery of the constitution and system of government. abc's senior national correspondent terry moran leads us off from the supreme court. >> reporter: at the supreme court today, a landmark decision that dramatically enhances the power of the presidency and makes it much harder to prosecute donald trump. at stake, whether the federal criminal case against trump for his alleged conspiracy to overthrow the 2020 election, including january 6th, would go forward. trump claiming as a former president, he could not be prosecuted, absolute immunity for any official acts taken while in office. and he argues everything he did then was official. chief justice john roberts writing for the court's 6-3 conservative majority, gave trump much of what he sought. first, roberts declaring, "the president may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers." those include, roberts wrote, the president's commander in chief powers, pardon power, hiring and firing federal officials, and more. then, the c

>>> also tonight, the shooting near supreme court justice sonia sotomayor's home. the attempted carjacking involving a u.s. marshal. >>> the remnants of hurricane beryl on the move. the u.s. death toll rising to ten. more than 2 million spent the day without power. and dangerous heat coast-to-coast. al roker is tracking it. >>> the dartmouth student found dead in a river. police investigating. is it linked to a fraternity event? >>> the possible close call between two passenger jets. what the faa says happened. >>> alec baldwin in court as jury selection begins in the "rust" shooting trial. >>> nbc news investigates the texas megachurch pastor, resigning after he was accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl decades ago. our new reporting revealing his attorney tried to blame her in the alleged abuse, and who else in the church knew about it? >>> and your first look at the first giant pandas to enter the u.s. in 21 years. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening and welcome. president biden is stomping out political brushfire

justice sonia sotomayor wrote a fiery dissent for the liberals with fear for our democracy and predictingous consequences as a result of the decision she called "deeply wrong." "the president," sotomayor wrote, "is now a king above the law." that prompted an unusual fierce response from roberts accusing the dissent of fearmongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals. the court emphasized the lasting significance of its decision well beyond trump, noting concerns about opening a pandora's box of criminal prosecutions of former presidents. the prospect trump teed up in last week's debate when he suggested president biden being prosecuted for his immigration policy. >> this man is a criminal. >> reporter: said the court, "virtually every president is criticized for insufficiently enforcing some aspects of federal law. without immunity, such types of prosecutions of ex-presidents could quickly become routine." as for the immediate case, applying the court's decision on what unofficial acts that special counsel jack smith can prosecute trump for will take time. >> this is not the end of the

justice sonia sotomayor, a more liberaljudge, completely disagrees with the ruling, saying "in everyal power, the president is now a king above the law. if he orders the navy seal team six to assassinate a political rival, immune. organises a military coup to hold on to power, immune." until now, every president who has served in the united states has understood that he could be prosecuted if he engaged in criminal conduct while president. going forward, presidents know they're free. the most immediate effect of this ruling will be to further delay the three court cases mr trump is still facing, making it all but certain they will not come to court before november's election. sarah smith there. here's daniel lippman, a reporterfor politico covering the white house and washington , with the significance of the court's ruling. well, i think this is a very significant ruling in that it gives future american presidents a lot more power, where they don't have to worry that they could get charged for any criminal conduct they commit on the job. and so this is going to be, i will say, it's

marshals opened fire on a suspected carjacker near the home of supreme court justice sonia sotomayor k. 18-year-old kentrell flowers sustained a nonlife threatening injury to the jaw after allegedly tapping this gun against the car window of a deputy u.s. marshal standing post near sotomayor's home. flowers is now charged with armed carjacking and carrying a pistol without a license. d.c. police are still investigating but say there is no indication the suspect targeted the supreme court justice or knew who he was attempting to carjack. >> norah: now to new mexico, where alec baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial is now underway and opening statements could begin as early as tomorrow. cbs's elise preston was in the courtroom for jury selection. >> reporter: the fate of alec baldwin will be decided by 12 jurors and four alternates here in santa fe, norah. >> how are you feeling this morning? >> reporter: on the first official day f his trial, baldwin arrived at the courthouse, while inside attorneys questioned a pool of 70 potential jurors about their ability to be impartial. just t

in a scathing dissent, justice sonia sotomayor said, "the president is now a king above the law." we will get response. and 64 years ago this week, patrice lumumba gave an historic speech to mark congo's independence from belgium. >> we shall eradicate and ensure for everyone the fitting this humidity -- humanity. amy: we will speak with vijay prashad, director of social research. he also recently visited were not intellectual noam chomsky in brazil. noam had a stroke last year. resilient president lula also stopped by. all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the united states supreme court ruled monday that donald trump has immunity from prosecution for official actions taken as president. the 6-to-3 ruling by the court's right-wing majority, including all three justices appointed by trump, was issued on the final day of the supreme court's term and just four months ahead of november's presidential election. it will further delay trump's criminal trial for leading the january 6 insurrection. the ruli

justice sonia sotomayor, you could feel the frustration. she read it aloud from the bench. she said the decision to give presidents absolute immunity on official acts makes a mockery of our founding principles and constitution. i want to read what she wrote, this new officials acts immunity lies about like a loaded weapon for any president who wants to put his political interests, and financial gain above the interests of the nation, even if these nightmare scenarios 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. she went on to say the man in charge of enforcing laws can now just break them. ironic, isn't it. she said the president could order seal team 6 to kill a political opponent, take a bribe, stage a military coup and she wrote, immune, immune, immune. justice sotomayor is very unhappy with the way the supreme court is ruling. we have a reporter inside, gary grumbach, while she was reading the dissent, amy coney barrett, one of the conservatives who voted to give im

suspect was shot during an attempted carjacking right near the home of supreme court justice sonia sotomayor. >>> the college death under investigation tonight. the hazing investigation following the death of a missing student at dartmouth. his body found in a river with underwater cameras, just 65 feet from shore. >>> the dramatic rescue of multiple boaters, after crashing at high speed, right into a bridge. >>> and tonight, take a look. the newest residents of the san diego zoo. the giant pandas have arrived. >>> good evening and we begin tonight with is the breaking news, president biden on the world stage just moments ago. his first global speech since the debate, standing before world leaders at the nato summit in washington, d.c. before the speech, president biden standing alongside those leaders in the very room where nato began. tonight, the president marking the 75th anniversary of america's most important alliance. those world leaders, of course, watching, american voters now watching very closely, too. and the unexpected moment at the end of the speech from the president. awarding

liberales se e escuchamos el dia de y de hoy el texto en el que explico sus razones la magistrada sonia sotomayorue con esta decision la corte suprema esta haciendo burla de esa idea de que nadie esta por encima de la ley y dijo con temor por la democracia expresaba que estaba en contra. >> ahi la propia ¿que es lo que pasa ahora? >> ¿cuales son las imp implicaciones? >> bueno, primero, no habra y eso queda muy claro, no habra un juicio contra el expresidente trump en su caso en washington, dc antes de la eleccion de novie hombre. >> y segundo, ahora el caso va a la corte de origen, a la corte de distrito de washington, dc a la jueza tania chocan para que se decida que si y que no de la acusacion formal contra trump puede proceder en el juicio. >> hay reacciones multiples desde distintos escenarios, desde el capitolio, por ejemplo, pero tambien la reaccion del expresidente trump que a traves de su red social, como suele hacerlo dijo que hay una victoria, dijo una victoria para el pais y para la constitucion. >> por otro lado, ya lo co comentaban ustedes, tambien la campana democrata, la campana d

justice sonia sotomayor read some disturbing scenarios. joining us now nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. first off, ken, has the special counsel commented yet? >> they have not, katy, and i'm told there are no plans for them to comment or issue a statement. >> so as you read through the opinion, what stood out to you? >> so, look, i think the big question here is how are official acts defined, and what kind of guidance did the supreme court offer for courts to tell the difference between an official act and a private act, and the answer is they offered some high level guidance, but left a lot of the details to the lower courts, and that's why you have justice sotomayor raising these dire scenarios, and then you have justice roberts in his opinion saying, oh, relax. that's not what we meant here. people can agree, even our own analysts on our network are not agreeing about exactly what the implications are. they did offer guidance of what the implications are for the trump case. what they said is the section o. c

and yet we've gotjustice sonia sotomayor saying that the president is now a king above the law.ou agree with her on the basis of this ruling? well, i think that's an exaggeration. oh, there are plenty of officials that are immune. she's immune, for example. nothing in the constitution says so, butjudges are absolutely immune from prosecution for everything that they do. uh, the prosecutors are absolutely immune for prosecutorial acts. congressional staffers are absolutely immune for things that they do and that connection. immunity is not that strange. a notion that when people are performing important public functions, the general idea is that, you know, they should be disciplined and held accountable and in certain ways, but not through a threat of throwing them behind bars. how likely is it that you think he'll survive unscathed then? because what happens to him politically and legally really can be very different. well, yes, and a great deal depends upon whether he is elected president. i think if he is elected president, first of all, under pretty clear precedent from both,

in that scathing dissent that was signed onto by two other liberal justices justice sonia sotomayor, put it this way, said quote the relationship between the president and the people he serves has now shifted in every use of official powers. the president is now a king above the law. my source tonight is president nixon's former white house counsel, john dean, and it's great to have your dunk because i just wonder when you look at this ruling today from the supreme court, do you think then president nixon would have, would have resigned from office had this immunity decision been in place when watergate happened absolutely not. >> i think it's clear from reading the decision with a very broad definitions of official conduct and i've versus on official conduct or outer perimeter conduct, he would have survived. he would have not been he would have been immunized i'm not going to get into the weeds of watergate, but broadly speaking, when the court outlines what it means by those terms and its effort to just outline for trump and lower court what to do. i just couldn't scape thinking a

and yet we've gotjustice sonia sotomayor saying that the president is now a king above the law.asis of this ruling? well, i think that's an exaggeration. oh, there are plenty of officials that are immune. she's immune, for example. nothing in the constitution says so, butjudges are absolutely immune from prosecution for everything that they do. uh, the prosecutors are absolutely immune for prosecutorial acts. congressional staffers are absolutely immune for things that they do in that connection. immunity is not that strange a notion. that when people are performing important public functions, the general idea is that, you know, they should be disciplined and held accountable and in certain ways, but not through a threat of throwing them behind bars. how likely is it that you think he'll survive unscathed then? because what happens to him politically and legally really can be very different. well, yes, and a great deal depends upon whether he is elected president. i think if he is elected president, first of all, under pretty clear precedent from both, uh, sides of the aisle, he

marshals protecting the home of supreme court justice sonia sotomayor.s in an unmarked car. that deputy and another nearby marshal fired back. the suspect was rushed to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries. police recovered this handgun at the scene. no word on whether justice sonia sotomayor was home at the time. she is safe. threatening to fine target store for reporting retail theft to police. the store could face public nuisance charge because of large number of calls they make to the police. they say, newsom keeps insisting reports of theft are dropping, we know why, thieves are let off without a slap on the wrist and victims are being threatened for ro ro reporting crimes. there is amendment banning these threats toward businesses. a whole lot of wrong in what i just read. >> todd: only in california. things heating up in north carolina first district. don davis being called out for having ties to china. democrats link to beijing include taking nine-day all expenses paid trip to china in 2013, funded by the ccp. next year davis spoke to w

en contra, los tres jueces, las juezas liberales, elena kagen, tambiÉn estaba ahÍ, entre ellas sonia sotomayor los actos fueron no oficiales, que entonces si el presidente de los estados unidos o quien sea, serÍa sujeto para las leyes criminales, es una preocupaciÓn muy grande. >> yo estaba dentro de la corte de distrito de washington cuando se oyÓ el caso. estaba aquÍ adentro cuando se escuchÓ el caso tambiÉn. y una de las preguntas fue. quÉ quiere decir esto? que a punto de salir de la casa blanca, un presidente puede decirle a las fuerzas especiales que asesinen a su rival? y si es un acto oficial, entonces tiene inmunidad. en ese caso, esa era una pregunta clave. hay respuesta para esto? >> si, segÚn la. si el acto es oficial. absolutamente. hay una. hay una inmunidad absoluta. y yo creo que tenemos que distinguir este tipo de acto. un presidente que que ordena el asesinato de una persona no es fuera de lo que hemos visto en este paÍs, especialmente en guerra. por ejemplo, osama bin laden se ordenÓ que Él muriera, muriÓ y nadie acusÓ a barack obama. asÍ que por eso es que los las liberales

in that scathing dissent that was signed onto by two other liberal justices justice sonia sotomayor, put it this way, said quote the relationship between the president and the people he serves has now shifted in every use of official power. the president is now a king above the law. my source tonight is president nixon's former white house counsel, john dean, and it's great to have your job because i just wonder when you look at this ruling today from the supreme court, do you think then president nixon would have, would have resigned from office had this immunity decision been in place when watergate happened absolutely not. >> i think it's clear from reading the decision with a very broad definitions of official conduct i've versus on official conduct or outer perimeter conduct, he would've survived. he would have not been he would have been immunized i'm not going to get into the weeds of watergate, but broadly speaking, when the court outlines what it means by those terms and its effort to just outline for trump and lower court what to do. i just couldn't scape thinking about tha

in that scathing dissent that was signed onto by two other liberal justices, justice sonia sotomayor, put it this way. said quote, the relationship between the president and the people he serves has now shifted in every use of official powers. the president is now a king above the law. my source tonight is president nixon's former white house counsel john dean, and it's great to have your job because i just wonder when you look at this ruling today from the supreme court you think then president nixon would have, would have resigned from office had this immunity decision been in place when watergate happened absolutely not. >> i think it's clear from reading the decision with a very broad definitions our official conduct and up versus on official conduct or outer perimeter conduct he would have survived. he would have not been he would have been immunized i'm not going to get into the weeds of watergate, but broadly speaking when the court outlines what it means by those terms and it's effort to just outline for trump and the lower court what to do. i just couldn't excrete thinking ab

sea absoluta o presuntiva este eje del tÉrmino clave en medio de este proceso, ademÁs la jueza sonia sotomayor que ella escrito en nombre de los liberales en la corte suprema de justicia que no estÁn de acuerdo con lo que han recibido la mayorÍa conservadora dice que prÁcticamente se convierte en una burla esta clÁusula que deja entrever como ninguna persona ni siquiera un precedente estÁ por encima de la ley la conservaciÓn de las estados unidas se habla en efecto de inmunidad presidencial en casas civiles nunca en casas penales porque nunca habÍa ocurrido nunca un expresidente habÍa sido presentada con cargos criminales ni mucho menos la corte suprema de justicia se briedis tener necesidad de discutir esto para determinar el futuro legal de un expresidente. vamos a continuar en la corte suprema de justicia porque son muchas las reacciones, sobre todo del congreso, republicanos aplaudiendo la decisiÓn del supremo y demÓcratas criticando fuertemente a los republicanos y conservadores que de alguna forma le dan esta victoria parcial al expresidente donald trump. la pregunta mÁs amplia es, quÉ v

in a scathing dissent joined by justices kagan and jackson, justice sonia sotomayor wrote for the minority -- "sleep is a biological necessity, not a crime. for some people, sleeping outside is their only option. for people with no access to shelter, that punishes them for being homeless. that is unconscionable and unconstitutional." we will have more on the supreme court's ruling later in the broadcast. president trump's former top political adviser is reporting to a federal prison today after he was found guilty of contempt of congress for defying subpoenas related to the january 6, 2021, capitol insurrection. steve bannon is set to begin a four-month sentence after the supreme court declined bannon's request that it intervene. just last week, top congressional republicans led by house speaker mike johnson filed an amicus brief on bannon's behalf asking the d.c. circuit court of appeals to keep bannon out of jail. bannon still faces criminal charges in new york for allegedly defrauding donors to an anti-immigrant nonprofit called we build the wall out of more than $15 million and for lau

la jueza sonia sotomayor criticÓ la decisiÓn como una burla del principio fundamental de nuestra constituciÓn de la ley. trump calificÓ la decisiÓn como una gran victoria e indicÓ que la corte suprema desmantelÓ la mayorÍa de los cargos en su contra. el fallo devuelve el caso de interferencia electoral del 6 de enero a una corte inferior para que determine quÉ actos de trump de acusaciÓn fueron oficiales y cuales no. esto retrasarÍa aÚn mÁs el proceso contra trump y probablemente tambiÉn afectarÍa otros cargos federales en su contra en georgia y florida. >> lo mÁs probable es que se prolongue de tal forma que no veamos un juicio superior. si el presidente es reelecto, va tener la oportunidad debe ordenar que se desistan de los cargos. reportera: este oficial lo rechazo. >> es un retraso, a quÉ estamos jugando? estamos gastando el sacrificio que hacemos al cruzar la calle. reportera: el fiscal encargado de este caso, no quiso hacer comentarios. el departamento de justicia dice que revisan sus opciones, examinando que actos podrÍan ser vistos como oficiales o no oficiales. jorge: las reacciones

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here's what justice sonia sotomayor put in her dissent today. the court refuses to designate any course of conduct alleged ia the indictment as private, despite confessions from trump's counsel. she continues, when asked about onlegations that private actors helped implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to ud obstruct the certification proceeding and a trump and a co-conspirator attorney directed that effort, trump's counsel conceded the alleged conduct bye trump was private. and then says, quote, only the majority, meaning only the majority ruling in the court today thinks that organizing fraudulent slates of electors s might qualify as an official act of the president. in other words, trump may be even more protected from prosecution on the fake electors thing that even trump asked for. justice sotomayor's dissent is being cited widely today, not only because of its heat. it is considerably hot. but also because of the light that it sheds on the practical consequences of this ruling from the majority. she says, q

dissent, justice sonia sotomayor wrote about the potential dangers of this decision on us democracy. the ruling affects special counsel jack smith prosecution of trump for election interfere prince for his role in the january 6th assault on the us capital. the case now goes back to the lower court. which you'll have to look at what acts are official. and what are a new official. >>>>there is an enormous amount of legal work that is now going to have to unfold over the next several months, >>>waiting until july to issue their ruling justice. have severely reduced the likelihood of trump's standing trial before the november election. >ryan>and we're about 4 months away from that election. the 2nd gentleman joined former house speaker nancy pelosi during a campaign stop in san francisco this weekend. they spoke to about 600 people at the alice b. toklas lgbtq. democratic club breakfast, 1 of the main topics was last week's presidential debate. we spoke to voters, some of who are worried about president biden is chances in swing states. >>>>do wish we had more options. but these are the

limited immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts he took in office or as justice sonia sotomayor it it's ironic, isn't it? the man in charge of enforcing the laws can now just break them in her dissenting opinion, justice sonia sotomayor also wrote, in every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law and the majority opinion, the conservative we've justices wrote as well, the president is not above the law, but under our system of separated powers, the president may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers. and he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for his official acts. that phrase, no one is above the law also came on up multiple times during the confirmation of most of the conservative justices. here is then supreme court nominee john roberts in his senate hearing senator i believe that no one is above the law in der under our system ad includes the president. the president is fully bound by the law the constitution and statutes six, years later, samuel alito saying that same tune and his closing statement

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>> and norm in part of her dissenting opinion supreme court justice sonia sotomayor said this in every use of official powers the president is now a king above the law orders, the navy seal team six to assassinate a political rival, immune organizes a military coup to hold onto power immune takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon. immune, immune, immune, immune very strong words. and then president biden spoke to her dissenting opinion in monday night, adding that the court ruling gives virtually no limits to what a president can do and represents a dangerous precedent. what's your reaction to this descending opinion? and to the president's response? >> the dissent was one of the most powerful that i have ever seen in my more than three decades of reviewing supreme court precedent the extent of official power that is given to a president when we have a candidate, rosemary, who says he wants to be a dictator on day one, the official power is shocking and disturbing. we'll see if those specific examples pan out or not. there's a debate to be had and the president called attention to that,

lewis: juno, i want to put some of the dissenting voices here, sonia sotomayor.sident is now a king above the law. what do you make of that? >> it is hyperbolic. i get it is frustrating, and i ard some of the speculations that now the president could have people assassinated, misuse the military. i guess that would involve many other actors going along with that lawlessness. but i get the frustration. these are conservatives in the majority that say they look to the plain language of the constitution, and there is nothg in the constitution that talks about this. typically in these cases, you would expect these justices to say we are not here to make things up. we look at the plain language. if you want to change it, we are not to want to change it. goes back to the people to do that. the fact that they built on the earlier case from the 1980's and said we are going to go with this, i understand the dissenter's aggravation here because this is exactly opposite of what this court trees itself as being in the majority. lewis: sarah, your thoughts on it, the presiden

al expresar su desacuerdo tajante, la jueza sonia sotomayor afirmÓ que la mayorÍa se inventÓ la inmunidad encima de la ley. afirmÓ que esto le permite mandar a matar a un rival polÍtico, organizar un golpe de estado y aceptar un soborno y resultar inmune, inmune, inmune con miedo por nuestra democracia, diciendo, concluye la magistrada, dejando por fuera la palabra respetuosamente acostumbrada en estos alegatos, de acuerdo con la jueza sotomayor, el presidente biden saliÓ a pedirle a los votantes que tomen en las urnas la decisiÓn en que, segÚn sus palabras, fallaron los jueces conservadores. >> must decide whether donald trump assault on our democracy on january sixth makes a fit for public office in the highest office in the land. >> a la vez que trump cantÓ victoria asegurando que los magistrados bÁsicamente desmantelaron los casos en su contra, los demÓcratas apuntan a la corte afirmando que estÁ politizada o es solo es el ejemplo mÁs reciente de los extremistas en la corte suprema, tres de ellos nombrados por el presidente trump hace tiempo, hoy, decidiendo en su favor. >> y no podem

intento de robo al auto de un oficial que custodia la residencia de la jueza de la corte suprema, sonia sotomayordc el s sospechoso de 18 anos se bajo en una minivan presuntamente robada y le apunto a la gente que abrio fuego con su arma reglamentaria y lo hirio en la boca, mientras un segundo oficial llego en otro auto y tambien disparo, al tiempo que el complice huia en la minivan. >> este no es el primer incidente de su tipo. >> este ano intentaron robar un auto del servicio secreto que protege a la nieta del presidente biden y en octubre asaltaron a punta de pistola al senador henry cuellar en su vehiculo. >> el autor de la masacre de parkland acepto donar su cerebro para la investigacion cientifica. >> la decision es producto de un acuerdo con un joven que sobrevivio a la masacre en la escuela con cinco disparos en su cuerpo. >> sonia parisos sanchez tiene todos los detalles. >> un rifle de asalto ar-15 para masacrar a 17 estudiantes y personal secundaria marjorie stoneman douglas en parkland, florida, el 14 de febrero de 2018. >> tambien hirio a 17 mas entre ellos a anthony borges, quien so

liberal justices warned the ruling has implications far beyond trump's ongoing trials justice sonia sotomayor, writing about future presidents quote, 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 six to assassinate a political rival. immune organizes a military coup to hold onto power immune takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon immune, immune, immune immune. let's bring in cnn legal analyst joey jackson to help us understand this decision. joey good morning to you wonderful to see you as always, i actually want to start in new york because this sentencing is set for july 11. they have asked that to be moved how much how much do you think that this immunity ruling really affects? the nitty-gritty facts details, et cetera, of the new york trial case. he good morning to you. so there's various schools of thought, right? the one school is that certainly this was private conduct as it relates to its conic with a porch saw no official act to be seen there. and as a result, what are we do

that was supreme court justice sonia sotomayor. her words again the president is now a king above the law. that's how she characterize the impact of the court's historic six to three ruling today. one that found that donald trump and well any other president for that matter has substantial immunity for official acts. in other words, if it's part of the official job scription laid out in the constitution. they can't prosecute him in criminal court now, here's the thing. that part of decision does not really that surprising to most people thought that would happen that a president couldn't be criminally prosecuted for actually doing the job of the president what was surprising, the kinds of thing the supreme court said the work of the president was when they punted the trial court to figure out the exact duties that same foot kick the can down the road for any trial, certainly pass november now, i've jack smith's case was a kind of where those jenga towers built one block after another, evidence of testimony. well, today the supreme

sonia sotomayor wrote with fear for our democracy.issent here was president biden yesterday this nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in america each, each of us is equal before the law no one no one is above the law not even the president of united states today's supreme court decision on presidential immunity, that fundamentally changed for all, for all practical purposes today's decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits or the president can do our panels here. let's brand cnn senior reporter isaac dovere, former federal prosecutor, elliot williams, cnn political commentator karen finney, and former rnc communications director doug hi welcome. all elliot williams big picture here. this has really up ended. all of the prosecutions of donald trump in a variety of arenas. and as i was thinking through what happened, as we recovering this together on this site yesterday that this really does seem like when we look back, when the history books are written, if donald trump wins in november,

they were parked outside justice sonia sotomayor's home. like you said, around 1:00 a.m.y 5, they're part of her protective detail at the time. that's when police say an 18-year-old got out of an already stolen minivan and then attempted to carjack the marshals unmarked car so the suspect got out, he allegedly pointed a 40 caliber handgun at one of the marshals. and that's when that marshall fired four times at the carjacking suspect, actually striking him in the mouth. now, the police report says that while the while the suspect was on the ground, the stolen minivan took off. the suspect was left behind. the marshal jill actually attempted first aid until an ambulance arrived. now are source a source told us that this carjacking it does appear to be completely random, meaning the suspects likely didn't realize that this was just outside justice sotomayor's home nor did they likely realize that they were targeting these us marshals because again, their vehicle was unmarked. and even though carjackings, they are down over all this year from last year in dc, there have been

the concerns spelled out and a nine no words from dissenting justice sonia sotomayor, who wrote the president, is now a king above the law, a blistering dissent after the court's conservative majority the liver donald trump, a huge immunity when we are already seeing what is going to happen next, because trump is re-posting the idea of political retribution and he's getting his lawyers geared up to you. the decision to overturn his state hush money conviction just days before sentencing. cnn's katelyn polantz leads us off here. katelyn, there's been plenty of response from donald trump. he has gone on social media praising this decision. have we heard anything from special counsel jack smith? >> we have not yet, sarah, but that is something we are very much expecting to hear because there's going to be have to be interpretations of this supreme court ruling that now gives the president some level of core immunity around that office. and this is an argument that trump's team is going to be making in lots of different courts not just in the coming days, in hearings and proceedings, very likely

and so at the heart of it, justice sonia sotomayor in her dissent, says exactly what mike dreeben said during oral argument for the government, that prosecutors don't bring political cases that there's all these checks that are in place where we don't need to immunize the president. and the reality is this court, the majority of this court is not blind to the context of all of these inventive lawfare moments. so they look at it and they say that might have been the model for a long time, but that kind of trust in the system when it comes to prosecutors is gone. on now, the question is, is is it lawfare to respond when a president for the first time in american history tries to overturn the legitimate results of an election. yes, it's an unusual case that was filed a. by, by the justice department here. but this was an unusual circumstance that donald trump brought on. so the idea that, that, that's somehow bad for the legal system, i think has things backwards. >> when you talked about less respect for prosecutors, what about for the hi court? i think the public's perception that the h

. >> reporter: in a scathing dissent, justice sonia sotomayor warned the ruling insulates the commander in chief from criminal prosecution no matter how he uses his official powers, even if it's for an assassination, military coup or a bribe. >> i think the lens she was coming from is no person is above the law. >> reporter: chief justice john roberts wrote in his majority opinion that no president is above the law and the court ultimately rejected trump's argument that he has absolute immunity unless impeached by the house and convicted by the senate. with just over four months until the presidential election, monday's ruling makes it highly unlikely trump will face trial in the election interference case before then. former president donald trump declared victory earlier today after the decision from the high court was handed down. he's even fundraised off of it. now if trump wins in november, he could direct the department of justice to throw out that federal election subversion case against him altogether. at the supreme court, nicole scanga. i'll send it back to you. >> thank you.

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winning, mostly published random house topics include ruth bader ginsburg, roberta willie mays, sonia sotomayor. barack obama. muhammad ali. hillary clinton. thurgood marshall, etc., etc. what of children's books do you write? mr. winter well, i write on about a broad range of topics, but generally what i have been writing about until few years ago, i should say i had been writing about were books about people who don't share my identity. so a lot of books on people of color and books on women books about racial and social justice. i write books about baseball players and artists and musicians. i write children's book, nonfiction picture picture book biographies, picture book nonfiction, specifically and recently the, last few years, i've been writing more fiction for reasons having to do with certain changes in publishing world and in my career. but that's generally the sort of books i've been writing. my first book was the ego about diego rivera, published in 1991 and and that kind of was before there was a category in bookstores, a section in bookstores called picture book biography. so i've

the special opinion of the three liberal judges that you ... expressed it was written by judge sonia sotomayor, that from today the president is like a king, that he is above the law, he can do anything he wants, he can order the special forces to kill a political opponent, for example, she just wrote that in this document, and he will get away with it all, that is... he has immunity, you see, in the american constitution there is not a single word about the immunity of the president, there is no such thing, those who created a constitution, as they are called in the united states, the founding fathers, they didn't foresee that the president could have immunity, and what the supreme court came up with , with its super-conservative majority today, is actually terrible, because... in fact, the supreme court said that the president, whatever he did not, as president, he has immunity from criminal prosecution, he does not have immunity, if, while in the office of president, he did something that, that is not the duties of the president, that is outside the duties of the president, that is from thi