Legal Commentary

Okay -- I get that we're all in a big hurry to get the new Administration underway, but this is getting ridiculous!

Courtesy of CQ Politics (my emphasis added):

Well, riddle me this: Exactly who will have nominated Holder to be the AG by the week of January 5?  Unless there has been a back-room deal pursuant to which President Bush submits the names of President-Elect Obama's nominees (and wouldn't that be a story!), there will literally be no nomination on which the Senate Judiciary Committee can hold a hearing until President (as opposed to President-Elect) Obama submits names to the Senate, so, not before 12:01 p.m. on January 20...

Put another way, isn't it true that President-Elect Obama has no more constitutional power to nominate someone to a Senate-confirmable job than I do?