March 14, 2003 Judicial Nominee Gets Second ChanceBy NEIL A. LEWIS ASHINGTON, March 13 — The Texas Supreme Court justice whose nomination to a federal appeals court was rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee when it was controlled by Democrats last year got a rare second chance today as she appeared before the committee, which is now in Republican hands. The justice, Priscilla R. Owen, who was turned down on a strict party-line vote last September, can almost certainly count on being approved on a strict party-line vote in the next two weeks. Her renomination by President Bush and the...