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 ...

As the Senate breaks for its August recess, we hope that the members of the Committee on the Judiciary will take some time to consider the nomination of Justice Priscilla Owen to ride the Fifth ...

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 ...

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 ...

If the GOP applied the same ethical tests to Priscilla Owen that its predecessors used to disqualify a liberal judge in 1968, she'd have to withdraw her nomination ...