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 ...

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. The year with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Senate confirms Priscilla Owen as the newest judge on the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 56-43 vote. A bipartisan deal reached this week averted, for the time being, a dispute over ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...