South Dakota House committee recommends Ravnsborg not be impeached
Photo: State of South Dakota
March 29, 2022
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota House committee is recommending that the state’s attorney general face no impeachment charges for his actions surrounding a 2020 fatal car crash.
Gov. Kristi Noem had pushed for Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg (pictured), a fellow Republican, to be removed from office.
But a Republican-controlled House committee issued a report Monday and found his actions did not merit impeachment.
Individual House lawmakers may still bring impeachment charges against Ravnsborg, but the committee’s decision was a major setback for those trying to remove him from office.
Ravnsborg struck and killed Joe Boever, who was walking along a rural highway just outside of Highmore in September of 2020.
