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The 57-year-old has been charged with providing property for the purposes of terrorism in connection with the shootings of sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, outside Massereene Army base in Antrim in March 2009.
Price, who was referred to in Belfast Magistrates' Court by her married name McGlinchey, was originally arrested and questioned over the matter in November 2009.
Earlier this year the veteran republican, who was jailed along with her sister Dolores in 1973 for their part in the IRA Old Bailey bombing, had her early release licence revoked and was returned to prison.
The move by Secretary of State Owen Paterson came after she was charged with encouraging support for an illegal organisation after she was accused of holding a speech for a masked man at a dissident republican rally in Londonderry on Easter Sunday.
Her lawyer, Peter Corrigan, claimed that no new evidence had emerged against his client in regard to the murders since she was questioned two years ago, and alleged she had now been charged because she was in the process of trying to get the decision to return her to jail overturned.
He told magistrate Fiona Bagnell that he intended to make an abuse of process application in regard to the Public Prosecution Service's decision to charge her. "Why has it taken 18 months to make a decision to charge Mrs McGlinchey with this offence?" he asked.
The lawyer added: "There must have been a decision taken at the time that there was insufficient evidence and now she is about to be released (she has been charged)."
Judge Bagnell set a fresh court date next month when the abuse of process application could be dealt with ahead of any future pre-trial hearings.
Two men are due to stand trial later this year for the soldiers' murders. Prominent Lurgan republican Colin Duffy, 43, and Brian Shivers, 45, from Sperrin Mews, Magherafelt, have pleaded not guilty to the murder charges and six further counts of attempted murder.
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