“No one is beyond the law in New York,” Mr. Vance said in a statement. Since Mr. Trump’s pardon power extends only to federal crimes, the ruling leaves people he pardons subject to state prosecutions. Mr. Manafort, who ran Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign for five months, was brought to New York a week ago to face the charges. Normally, inmates awaiting court appearances on state charges would be held in the notoriously violent Rikers Island jail complex. But Mr. Manafort was permitted to be held in the federal prison instead, after the second-highest law enforcement official in the country intervened.

Source: New York Times June 27, 2019 18:22 UTC