Stolen seat, bully tactics, hatred of Oregon's Death with Dignity law, using the reasoning he favors to defeat Death with Dignity to finally defeat Roe V. Wade...
I am no lawyer, but would bet the ranch that the only reason our Orange Pharaoh chose this candidate is because he will do the far right's bidding, just as Clarence Thomas does.  Gorsuch  is seen as so far right he pretty much lines up with Thomas. 
Does a President get to choose candidates he deems worthy to the court? The Congressional Republicans have said that is not the law of the land. 
So no. Democrats will lose, no doubt about it, but to give in the the fifth grade bullies on the playground just encourages them. 
The "law" is just a smokescreen, a way for the powerful to run the lives of the poor. Lawyers are pretty much hired guns. Democrats need to fight for their own hired guns. If any think the "law" is anything but an excuse for power to screw over the poor, I envy their delusions.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon