From 2009 to 2014, he was a partner at Covington & Burling, where he served as the vice-chair of the firm's White Collar Defense and Investigations practice group.

[7] On December 13, 2014 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a motion to invoke cloture on the nomination.

The injunction applies specifically to some of the money the administration intended to allocate from other agencies, and limits wall construction projects in El Paso, Texas and Yuma, Arizona.

On July 26, 2019, the United States Supreme Court, in the case Trump v. Sierra Club, No.

19A60, in a 5-to-4 ruling, overturned an appellate decision which had refused to stay Judge Gilliam's May 23, 2019, injunction, and said that the administration could spend the money while litigation over the matter proceeds.