Owen, Pickering tapped again Bush nominates jurists Democrats rejected for appeals court 01/08/2003 By MICHELLE MITTELSTADT / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - President Bush renominated Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen and Mississippi Judge Charles Pickering on Tuesday for seats on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, rekindling a dispute with Senate Democrats, who rejected the nominees last year. Justice Owen and Judge Pickering were among 31 judicial candidates submitted on the first day of the new Congress. While Justice Owen's defenders had vowed her name would be swiftly re-offered, Judge Pickering's future had appeared less certain....