August 7, 2002 9:15 a.m. Do Senate Democrats really intend to kill the judicial nomination of Priscilla Owen? It's impossible to say for sure. But consider their latest move in the battle over the Texas state supreme court justice who is President Bush's choice for a place on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals: Republicans long complained about committee delays in holding a hearing for Owen, who was nominated on May 9, 2001. After more than a year of waiting, Owen finally got her hearing two weeks ago, on Tuesday, July 23. As is customary at such sessions, Democrats not...