There's a reason why, though.
First, no one can reasonably expect that ANY Supreme Court justice nominated by Trump (or, if he doesn't make it through his first term, by Pence) would be anything less than an attempt to nominate a Scalia clone. The Republicans presently don't have the slightest reason to compromise. I don't know much about this guy Gorsuch, but I have no reason to believe that he's going to say anything in his hearing which will give away a political agenda; he could very well have decided to partake in a reversal of Roe v. Wade if it comes up to the SCOTUS again, for example... but supreme court nominees never reveal any hard prejudices... you don't find out about them until they are seated.
The problem with attempting to block his confirmation is more serious: the Republicans COULD invoke the 'nuclear option', reducing the margin from 60 votes, to 51 votes, for a Supreme Court nominee. This is something McConnell doesn't want to do, because he's one of the few GOP senators who recognize that doing so would come back to bite him in a future vote, if, down the road, there are a few GOP defectors who are as distressed and fed up with Trump as many of us are. It hurts the Democratic cause even more, though.
It would be far better to save the supermajority for things which are 1) more important, and 2) likely to come up within the next year. It is also true that a continuation of 4-4 ties in SCOTUS are a very bad thing for the country... leaving important decisions in limbo. There is no guarantee that Gorsuch will result in as string of 5-4 decisions; many times in the past, judges nominated and confirmed on the basis of their political views, have voted the opposite way.
Let's just swallow this bitter pill... and work towards 2018 and 2020.
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