South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was impeached yesterday.
That doesn’t mean he’s out of office, just that he’s going to an impeachment trial in the state Senate.
The impeachment is tied to a traffic accident in 2020.
…he initially told authorities he thought he had struck a deer or another large animal.
He actually hit a man, Joseph Boever, who died.
Ravnsborg, who took office in 2019, initially told aides and a 911 dispatcher he did not know what he hit on a rural highway as he was returning home from a Republican dinner in September 2020. He went back to the scene the next day and found the body of 55-year-old Boever, who had been walking on the highway’s shoulder.
The Highway Patrol concluded that Ravnsborg’s car crossed completely onto the highway shoulder before hitting Boever, and criminal investigators said later that they didn’t believe some of Ravnsborg’s statements.
Ravnsborg pled to two traffic related misdemeanors in the accident, but apparently there are a lot of people who don’t believe his story. Including Governor Kristi Noem, who is also a Republican: Ravnsborg claims she’s out to get him because he’s been investigating her.
