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Senate Confirms Long-Stalled Cook Nomination May 5, 7:17 pm ET By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Judicial nominee Deborah Cook, denied even a hearing let alone a vote by the previous Democratic-led Senate, won confirmation on Monday from the Republican-controlled Senate. On a largely party-line vote of 66-25, the Senate approved President Bush's nearly two-year-old bid to elevate the Ohio Supreme Court justice to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. Also on Monday, Republicans tried and failed for a fifth time to remove a Democratic procedural hurdle against another long-stalled judicial nominee, Miguel Estrada. The Senate voted...