Like most judges, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen eschews political labels. But by all knowledgeable accounts, President Bush's nominee for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a ...

The U.S. Senate voted today to confirm President Bush's controversial nomination of Texas jurist Priscilla R. Owen to be a federal appeals court judge, resolving a four-year dispute that helped ...

THE SENATE Judiciary Committee's rejection last week of President Bush's nominee to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, Priscilla Owen, opens a distressing new chapter in the war over judicial ...

The Senate continued consideration of the nomination of Priscilla Owen as a judge for the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Following a bipartisan compromise reached among 14 senators the ...

NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg reports on the controversial nomination of Texas Supreme Court Judge Priscilla Owen, whom the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider Tuesday. While ...

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 Appeals.

Priscilla Owen. On the C-SPAN Networks: Priscilla Owen is a Justice for the Texas Supreme Court with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2002 Senate Committee.

CHALK UP A BIG ONE for Priscilla Owen, an unsung winner of last Tuesday's election, and a partial architect of the Republican victory. Owen is the Texas judge who was a Bush nominee for the U.S ...

The hearings on Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen have again highlighted a number of shortcomings in how this country selects its judges. The principal issues that led to the defeat of ...

WASHINGTON - Four years after President Bush nominated her to a federal appeals court, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen is still waiting for her promotion. But the fate of the former ...

Editor's Note, September 5, 2002: After a party-line vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee today, Judge Priscilla Owen's nomination to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals was denied. President Bush ...

Maria Cantwell went along with her Democratic colleagues on the Judiciary Committee in axing the nomination of Judge Priscilla Owen because the pro-abortion groups didn’t feel that Judge Owen ...