My prediction.....
1.) McCain, Graham and Collins are the three stooges who agree to this.
2.) Trump is forced to nominate a moderate (see liberal) for his next appointment in order to avoid a filibuster.
3.) Gorsuch turns out to be another Kennedy.
4.) The court is now fully and permanently a bastion of unfettered liberalism.
In the end, the dumb ass Republicans took the White House, the HOR and the Senate and subsequently destroyed the country. Mark my words.
Moderates are just liberals that are lying.
I wish I could say you're wrong, but my gut feeling for weeks has been that you're right. I give it about an 85% chance of happening at this point.
It looks like the Dem filibuster will go nowhere, Gorsuch will be confirmed by a similar margin that Souter and Roberts were (every Republican Senator blindly rubber stamping Gorsuch because he says he is an "originalist" who will "strictly follow what is written in the constitution" and his fan club lives in some alternate reality where that strategy worked awesomely in the past instead of being a proven failure). About a dozen or more RAT Senators who couldn't find any dirt on Gorsuch will instinctly vote "no" him because he has an R next to his name. Gorsuch will get in and once he has a cushy job for life, will become a right-of-center squish who does some decent things but easily caves to the four commies from time to time. It will be a huge downgrade from Scalia and move the court to the left to have a Sandra Day O'Connor type judge in a formerly rock solidly conservative seat.
When it comes to replacing a true marxist like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Trump won't have nearly the advantage he does now to name a conservative, and will be forced to name some colorless centrist to win a Senate confirmation vote, and the result will be another John Paul Stevens type judge who starts off semi-decent but "evolves" in office and becomes increasingly leftist over the next decade.
The end result will be a Supreme Court that is far more liberal than the one Trump inherited when he entered office, though I don't expect the FReepers who screamed this election is about the "Supreme Court" and swore up and down that Trump would appoint nominees to the right of Reagan's bench (and demonized those of us who didn't believe it during the 2016 primaries) will ever admit they were wrong.
In this case, I'm praying *I'm* wrong.