Counteract Don pardons: N.Y. AG

ALBANY — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is urging state lawmakers to quickly close a loophole in state law that could prevent him from bringing charges against anyone pardoned by President Trump.

In a letter to Gov. Cuomo and legislative leaders, Schneiderman (photo) said a quirk in New York’s double jeopardy law shields anyone who’s pleaded guilty to a federal crime or who had a jury sworn in from facing state charges based on the same act or transaction.

“Thus, if a federal defendant pleads guilty to a federal crime, or if a jury is sworn in a federal criminal trial against that defendant, and then the President pardons that individual, this New York statute could be invoked to argue that a subsequent state prosecution is barred,” he wrote.

A rep for Cuomo said he’ll review the proposal.