The U.S. Senate on Wednesday unanimously confirmed Covington & Burling partner Christopher “Casey” Cooper to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
The bipartisan vote places President Obama’s seventh nominee on the federal trial court in Washington. There are three other existing or upcoming vacancies on the court: two seats are vacant, and one is expected to open up in June when Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle takes senior status. One nominee, Boies, Schiller & Flexner partner Tanya Chutkan, is already moving through the Senate.
