"Going with a woman or a minority does get you some brownie points, so in terms of picking the hardest to confirm now, that would argue for a man," Curt Levey, a conservative legal activists with Freedomworks and Committee for Justice, told Politico. "Also the symbolic value, if Ginsburg does leave the court, of replacing her with a woman would be important."
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