What they are trying to say is that State law is anything and everything that is federal law. So, if Trump pardons someone for a federal law crime, New York thinks it can prosecute for the same crime.
Problem is, New York State doesn’t have jurisdiction in most cases of federal law, so this law wouldn’t even stand a jurisdiction challenge.
I guess I assumed even democrats wouldn’t be that brazenly insane. Silly me.
I read the NBC article referenced in the main Hotair article. I’m not so sure this law does what you says it does after all. In fact I think it’s just for show, like the impeachment inquiry that isn’t really an impeachment inquiry. The last sentence of the NBC article reads “While presidents can pardon federal crimes, they cannot pardon state offenses.” This law does nothing and if they try to make state law cover federal offenses that won’t fly.