Here are a few notes from the blogosphere as we enter the dog days of August.

Ed Whelan at Bench Memos is thrashing the ABA over its handling of its evaluation of Fifth Circuit nominee Mike Wallace.

Doug Berman at SL&P has this post on victim impact statements and this one on a district court decision on Blakely and Booker. The opening paragraph of the opinion blasts the American judicial system for all the terrible things it was doing before these decisions. Doug calls it "powerful." I call it oblivious to the fact that the application of the Sixth Amendment jury trial right to sentencing factors is a close call on which reasonable people can and do differ.

Capital Defense Weekly has a few interesting items, including publication of a diatribe from Pennsylvania murderer Antuan Bronshtein. The latter continues to attack Justice Alito, despite the fact that then-Judge Alito decided the penalty-phase issue in his favor, incorrectly, in my humble opinion.