AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas judge Priscilla Owen, the subject of a long and heated confirmation battle in the U.S. Senate, took the oath of office Monday for her new seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

The Senate confirms Priscilla Owen to the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by a vote of 55-43, ending a four-year struggle. A compromise worked... Senate Confirms Owen as Appeals Court Judge ...

Melissa Block talks to Bennett Roth of the Houston Chronicle about Texas State Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen. Roth is working on a profile... Owen at Center of Battle Over Judicial Nominations ...

Priscilla Owen overcame many hurdles to get to this point but not all of them. A lot of people, important people, are getting one key fact about her wrong. President GEORGE W. BUSH: Over four years ...

2003—Demonstrating their particular animus against female nominees whom they regard as judicial conservatives, Senate Democrats filibuster President George W. Bush’s nominations of Judge Priscilla ...

WASHINGTON -- The Senate likes to call itself the world's greatest deliberative body. Anyone needing a reference on that should check with Priscilla Owen. Nominated to the federal appeals court in May ...

WASHINGTON -- The first strike against Priscilla Owen could be that she's from Texas. Add to that her controversial opinions from the state Supreme Court, past ties to Enron Corp. and charges from ...

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