{"id":167381,"date":"2021-02-24T07:18:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T12:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=167381"},"modified":"2021-02-24T07:58:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T12:58:48","slug":"state-lawmakers-pursuing-impeachment-against-south-dakota-ag-following-fatal-crash-misdemeanor-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-lawmakers-pursuing-impeachment-against-south-dakota-ag-following-fatal-crash-misdemeanor-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"State Lawmakers Pursuing Impeachment Against South Dakota AG Following Fatal Crash, Misdemeanor Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstate-lawmakers-pursuing-impeachment-against-south-dakota-ag-following-fatal-crash-misdemeanor-charges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=167381&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ravnsborg-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A South Dakota state lawmaker has filed articles of impeachment with bipartisan support against the South Dakota attorney general, who was charged with three misdemeanors this month after fatally striking a pedestrian on the highway with his car last fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rep. Will Mortensen, a freshman Republican, submitted the two<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/mylrc.sdlegislature.gov\/api\/Documents\/218218.pdf\"><span>articles of impeachment<\/span><\/a> <span>to the Legislative Research Council against the Republican Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.argusleader.com\/story\/news\/2021\/02\/23\/kristi-noem-calls-jason-ravnsborg-resisn\/4558686001\/\">according<\/a> to the Argus Leader.\u00a0<\/span><span>The charges will likely be announced on the floor Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The first impeachment article is for \u201cActs Causing The Death Of Joseph Boever,\u201d the 55-year-old man whom Ravnsborg hit with his car while driving home from a fundraiser last September.\u00a0<\/span><span>The first article of impeachment reads:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span>On the evening of September 12, 2020, Jason Ravnsborg failed to operate his vehicle within its proper lane, crossed outside such lane, and struck pedestrian and Highmore, South Dakota resident Joseph Boever. Mr. Boever died from injuries sustained from the collision; and (2) Jason Ravnsborg has been charged by the Hyde County State\u2019s Attorney with three separate crimes in connection with his driving on the night in question. The Attorney General having a special obligation to the People and the Laws of the State of South Dakota, Jason Ravnsborg must be removed from such office for his crimes or misdemeanors in office causing the death of Joseph Boever.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The second article of impeachment, for \u201cOther Acts Following The Death Of Joseph Boever,\u201d accuses Ravnsborg of engaging in \u201cactions unbecoming\u201d of the attorney general\u2019s office \u201cduring his reporting of the collision and the resulting investigation.\u201d The articles of impeachment were co-sponsored by both the Republican and Democratic leader in the House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ravnsborg has been charged with three misdemeanors stemming from the day of the accident, including<\/span> <span>one count of operating his car while using a cellphone, one count of failing to stay in his lane on the highway, and one count for careless driving. State authorities said Sunday that Ravnsborg wasn\u2019t on his cell phone at the time of the accident, but was using his cell phone on that same drive. Authorities said he was not intoxicated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Back in September,\u00a0<span>Ravnsborg said in a statement that he had \u201cstruck something that I believed to be a large animal (likely a deer),\u201d pulled over and called 911, and then inspected the scene. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/south-dakota-ag-releases-statement-after-discovering-human-body-by-highway-after-he-thought-he-hit-a-deer\">The Daily Wire<\/a> previously reported:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span>Once the sheriff arrived, said Ravnsborg, neither of them suspected a person had been hit with the car. Because the attorney general\u2019s car was undrivable, and a tow truck would have taken over an hour to arrive, the two went to the sheriff\u2019s house and Ravnsborg borrowed the sheriff\u2019s personal car to drive home.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The following morning, the state attorney general said, he was on his way to return the car, along with his chief of staff, when the two stopped by the site of the accident to see if they could find the animal he believed he had hit the preceding evening.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Instead, the two found the body of Joseph Boever, 55, a nearby resident of Highmore, South Dakota, in a ditch.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem also called on Ravnsborg to resign Monday. In a statement, a spokesperson for Ravnsborg said that the attorney general had no plans to do so.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Dakota state lawmaker has filed articles of impeachment with bipartisan support against the South Dakota attorney general, who was charged with three misdemeanors this month after fatally striking &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274098,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ravnsborg-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"State Lawmakers Pursuing Impeachment Against South Dakota AG Following Fatal Crash, Misdemeanor Charges","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ravnsborg-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"State Lawmakers Pursuing Impeachment Against South Dakota AG Following Fatal Crash, Misdemeanor Charges","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}