President Donald Trump may be able to skirt Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) blockade on a pair of prosecutor nominees using a little-known statute that lets judges install them instead of the Senate.

Trump named Jay Clayton, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, as the interim U.S. attorney for Manhattan on Wednesday, the same day Schumer announced he would veto Clayton and one other New York nominee using a tradition that gives home-state senators veto power over their confirmation.

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