. . until Patrick Leahy allows votes on Bush's judges. BOYCOTTS don't always work, but they usually annoy. Maybe it's time to annoy Vermont and its two senators, Patrick Leahy and James Jeffords, to get across how little the obstruction of judicial confirmations is appreciated. Senator Leahy holds the chairmanship of the Senate's Judiciary Committee, a position he has abused from the moment he assumed it. Eight of President Bush's original eleven nominees to the federal bench have not been given so much as a hearing by Leahy, despite the fact that individually and as a group they represent the...