Ted has authored over seventy U.S. Supreme Court briefs and presented twenty-six oral arguments, including six in the U.S. Supreme Court. His representation of the State of Texas includes:

• successfully defending the constitutionality of the Texas Ten Commandments monument before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court;
• authoring a U.S. Supreme Court brief on behalf of all fifty States and successfully defending the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance;
• serving as lead counsel for the State and successfully defending the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court;
• successfully defending the constitutionality of the Texas Sexually Violent Predator Civil Commitment law before the Texas Supreme Court;
• successfully defending in the D.C. Circuit the individual right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment;
• arguing the school finance case before the Texas Supreme Court and winning a unanimous reversal of the trial court’s ruling that the system violates the Education Clauses of Texas Constitution; and
• successfully representing Texas before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case resisting efforts by the International Court of Justice to order reconsideration of U.S. death penalty jurisprudence. 

For four consecutive years, he has won the Best Brief Award by the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), for the best brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. As a litigator, his lifetime record in decided cases that he has argued is 20 wins and 3 losses.

In addition, since 2004 he has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law, where he teaches U.S. Supreme Court Litigation.

Prior to his current position, Ted served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning for the Federal Trade Commission, as Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as Department of Justice Coordinator for the Bush Transition Team. In November and December 2000, he helped assemble the Bush legal team, devise legal strategy, and draft pleadings in the Florida and U.S. Supreme Courts during the Florida presidential recount.

From June 1999 to November 2000, Ted served as Domestic Policy Advisor to President George W. Bush on the Bush-Cheney campaign in Austin, Texas. In that capacity, he advised President Bush on a wide range of policy matters, with primary responsibility for all legal policy, including Civil Justice, Criminal Justice, Constitutional Law & Civil Rights, Immigration, Campaign Finance Reform, Political Process, and Government Reform.