Clarence Thomas Ethics Scandal, After School Satan Club, Andrew Tate & Toxic Masculinity

Introducing The Branch (The Branch, 4/12/23)

Clarence Thomas Gifts [3:35]
Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire (ProPublica, 4/6/23)
Justice Clarence Thomas accepted several luxury trips paid for by GOP megadonor, ProPublica report finds (CNN, 4/6/23)
Senate Democrats call for investigation into Justice Clarence Thomas (BBC, 3/11/23)
Senate Democrats urge chief justice to investigate Thomas’s unreported gifts (Washington Post, 4/10/23)
Justice Thomas Says He Was Advised Lavish Gifts Did Not Need to Be Reported (The New York Times, 4/7/23)
Justices Must Disclose Travel and Gifts Under New Rules (The New York Times, 3/29/23)
The Clarence Thomas scandal isn’t about breaking the law: It shows how broken ethics standards are on the Supreme Court (Fortune, 4/7/23)
Clarence Thomas’s brazen violation of ethics rules, briefly explained (Vox, 4/7/23)
Supreme Court justices face new disclosure requirements for gifts, free trips (The Hill, 3/29/23)
Clarence Thomas Is as Free as Ever to Treat His Seat Like a Winning Lottery Ticket (The New York Times, 4/11/23)
Inequality Ahoy! On the Meaning of the Superyacht (The New York Times, 4/11/23)
Opinion: The Clarence Thomas revelations are the last straw. It’s time for Congress to act (CNN, 4/7/23)
The Smearing of Clarence Thomas (Wall Street Journal, 4/7/23)
Supreme Court justices are allowed to have friends (The Hill, 4/10/23)
The Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (U.S. Government Publishing Office)
Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges (United States Courts)
It’s time for Clarence Thomas to come clean (Washington Post, 4/7/23)
If the Law Is Legitimate, Clarence Thomas Must Stand Trial (The American Prospect, 4/10/23)
Legal questions remain that Clarence Thomas can answer under oath (MSNBC, 4/10/23)

ACLU + Satan Club [19:49]
ACLU files lawsuit against Saucon Valley School District over After School Satan Club (Morning Call, 3/31/23)
After School Satan Club co-founder defends his mission: ‘Not looking to convert’ kids (New York Post, 12/16/22)
Satan Clubs Should Be Allowed in Schools (Reason, 4/11/23)
ACLU Sues Saucon Valley School District for Prohibiting After School Satan Club from Meeting in District Facilities (ACLU, 3/30/23)
There is No Constitutional Right to Satanism (The American Conservative, 3/6/23)
Free Speech for Satanism? (Newsweek, 2/24/22)
ACLU slaps Pennsylvania school district with lawsuit for banning After School Satan Club (Fox News, 4/2/23)
Is the ‘After School Satan Club’ legal? Legal analysts say it is. (13NewsNow, 2/17/23)
What is an After School Satan Club? (NewsNation, 2/21/23)
What is the Satanic Temple? A far cry from SF’s Church of Satan (SFGate, 1/9/19)
Jesse Watters LOSES Debate To Satanic Temple Leader (The Kyle Kulinski Show, 12/21/22)
ACLU sues district over ‘After School Satan Club’ (WNEP, 3/31/23)
Saucon Valley sticking by decision to not allow After School Satan Club (WNEP, 3/7/23)
School board meeting held in Saucon Valley amid ‘After School Satan Club’ controversy (WNEP, 2/28/23)
Satanic Smokescreen: Good News Clubs Push Back on ‘After School Satan’ Clubs (CBN, 2/14/23)
The Satanic Temple v. Saucon Valley School District, Complaint (US District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 3/30/23)
Email from ACLU: Unconstitutional denial of application to use school facilities for After School
Satan Club meetings (ACLU, 3/3/23)

Andrew Tate + Toxic Masculinity [29:33]
The war on ‘toxic masculinity’ makes struggling boys, men prey for Andrew Tate (New York Post, 4/5/23)
Richard Reeves: “We have to rescript masculinity” (The New Statesman, 11/2/22)
Who is Andrew Tate, ‘king of toxic masculinity,’ accused of trafficking? (The Washington Post, 1/10/23)
Andrew Tate released from Romanian jail, placed under house arrest (Fox News, 4/1/23)
The Problem With a Fight Against Toxic Masculinity (The Atlantic, 2/27/19)
What Is Toxic Masculinity? (The New York Times, 1/22/19)
American Men Suffer a Friendship Recession (National Review, 7/6/21)
The State of American Friendship: Change, Challenges, and Loss (Survey Center on American Life/AEI, 6/8/21)
How to Fight Toxic Masculinity (Scientific American, 6/26/19)