Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg of South Dakota was convicted by the state’s Senate on June 21 of two impeachment charges in connection with a car crash in 2020 that claimed the life of a pedestrian.
The vote to impeach the Republican came after hours of questioning from lawmakers, who didn’t appear to believe Ravnsborg’s account of the crash, and also triggered his automatic removal from office.
Senate lawmakers needed a two-thirds majority vote or more for each of the two separate impeachment articles against Ravnsborg, which included crimes causing death and malfeasance in office.
The state lawmakers voted 24–9 on the first article of impeachment of crimes causing death, meeting the two-thirds majority needed to convict him and have him removed from office….