The indicted lawyers in Georgia’s racketeering charges: another example of the ‘banality of evil’?
Many would have assumed that the legal profession’s ethical rules, professed service to the rule of law and justice—let alone the potential professional penalties, including disbarment—should have warned the lawyers off the conduct that led to their indictments.
Could those who supported former U.S. president Donald Trump in his attack on American democracy be regarded as evil? Can evil actions or attempts at evil actions be more the result of far more common actions that are not fully understood?
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