Senate impeachment hearing for Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg begins tomorrow. Here’s the agenda, as they plan the week:

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Impeachment is on the agenda this week, as most Senators plan on coming to Pierre for the hearing. I have heard that Julie Frye Mueller is not going to be there as a result of the death of her brother-in-law, but otherwise, most should be participating in this historic proceeding that our state has never faced before.

Senators will have limited passes for the gallery, as they are treating it much like proceedings in Congress or other legislatures, as you can note from this tweet from the Argus’ Joe Sneve..

Most hope they can be completed in 2 days, but there are thoughts it could run into Thursday, which would place it right on top of the start of the Republican State Convention.

This is going to be a historic week in South Dakota. Keep on watching.

23 thoughts on “Senate impeachment hearing for Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg begins tomorrow. Here’s the agenda, as they plan the week:”

  1. Let Justice be served!

    I’ve never worked for a more inept boss. His DCI director ran off almost 50% of his Agents and almost all of his top supervisors and leadership team. The worst part is he is so out of touch, he thought this was a good thing.

    Time for Justice for his victim, the AG’s office, and the State of South Dakota.

    1. It was a good thing to run off a lot of those good ole boys

      Jackley had the most political office ever. Lots of things went undone as I said in previous post.

      I do not believe the current AG did anything impeachable and justice will only be done with an acquittal. Otherwise it has been all political since day one.

      A class 2 misdemeanor is impeachable but storming the capitol in Washington is not? That makes no sense at all.

      1. Jason Ravnsborg allegedly drove all four wheels across the rumble strip and told the 911 dispatcher seconds later that whatever he’d hit had been “right in the roadway.”

        That’s why he’s lost so much support, and that’s what he has to explain.

        1. Prove all 4 wheels were off the roadway, you cant. None of us were there. And there are witnesses who drove by earlier who saw the pedestrian on the white line, let alone stumbling on both sides of the white line. Most people DO NOT believe all 4 wheels were across the white line, all he has to do is stick to his story.

            1. Prove there was no collision in the roadway before the collision on the shoulder.

    2. I hope you don’t practice law as you clearly can’t read the Constitution:

      “The Governor and other state and judicial officers, except county judges, justices of the peace and police magistrates, shall be liable to impeachment for drunkenness, crimes, corrupt conduct, or malfeasance or misdemeanor in office, . . .”

      Even if true, being inept isn’t grounds for impeachment. We have elections for the people to pass judgment on job performance. This impeachment is a Pelosi-like abuse of power and anyone supporting it is a threat to basic Constitutional liberty and protections. It is the proponents of impeachment who are committing malfeasance (Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public officia) because they are perverting a solemn Constitutional duty to achieve their political objectives making them legitimately subject to impeachment.

      Of course, the legislators would never impeach themselves. We are about to find out those who think themselves above the law and the Constitution.

    3. What a lying sack! Insider is an idiot with no clue or is just a bold faced liar! So some research! Majority of the agents retired! Others moved into jobs that paid more. Maybe would have stayed if Marty would have fought to get them a raise.

      1. You’re delusional if you don’t think they left because of who was in charge. They had little respect for the new brass. Yes, some were set to retire. But others took retirement when maybe they would have waited a little longer.

  2. I do not see a crime that is impeachable in the House resolution if you look at the law.

    The seasoned and legally trained prosecutors looked at everything and only charged class 2 misdemeanors. So why are we second guessing them on the law. I understand the emotional response that someone died but they could not justify any other charges and they knew that also. One charged was dismissed, another they said did not have anything to do with the accident leaving just a lane violation. That is the question…is a lane violation misdemeanor is impeachable?

    I think it does not and that is a dangerously low standard.

    1. Here’s the thing I’ve said all along. Had the AG stood up and took responsibility for killing someone, and showed up to court and took his punishment like a man, this might have all gone away. But from the beginning, it’s been avoidance of the press and the public. It’s been inconsistent stories and then written statements by an out of state PR advisor. On top of that, he has a terrible reputation of driving fast and then flashing his badge or dropping his title. I honesty think he avoids all of this if he shows up to court, takes his punishment, and then has a press conference apologizing and taking responsibility using his own voice.

      Does anyone here know is he’s required to be at the impeachment trial the next two days? I sort of assume he won’t be there since he hasn’t showed up to anything else so far.

      1. You sound like you’ve been brainwashed by Craig Price’s smear campaign. Jason Ravnsborg gave his account to the press and the public a long, long time ago, and that account is far more consistent than the contradictory and often baseless claims of his accusers.

        1. Craig Price is not one to listen to, considering he crashed two government vehicles on personal time and got it covered up.

  3. This is such a political hack job. Noem and her lackeys are doing to Ravnsborg what the dems did to Trump. There is zero impeachable material.

    We really are going to impeach someone on a couple of miss demeanors??

      1. So then we need to open up everyone’s driving record. Anyone with a class 2 misdemeanor or higher should be impeached. I doubt many of our politicians would be left.

        And I bet you two Yesses would be impeached. I think you two should do the right thing and resign from your positions.

          1. Hey, it’s you again. The same lame one-liner with zero substance to back it up. Too bad you can’t accept the fact that it was ruled an accident, hence no one killed anyone.

            1. NO – it was ruled an accident, meaning he did not deliberately kill anyone, he accidently killed someone.
              Meaning he couldn’t be charged with Murder.
              He still killed someone.
              His car, that he was driving, hit a pedestrian who died as a result.
              That is not the subject of any kind of debate.

  4. If the Senators follow the Constitution that they are all sworn to uphold then they must vote to acquit.

    If they let other things like politics, emotions, the governor sway them then they have forgotten their oaths.

    It is easy to follow the mob after a person’s civil Rights have been violated repeatedly and you can follow that path and become the first state to remove an Attorney General. However, it takes courage to do what is right in the law and stand up to these pressures.

    Senators—If you traded spots with the AG, wouldn’t you want him to follow the law for you?

  5. It’s interesting on this blog tonight. All of the Ravnsborg supporters are out pushing for acquittal — I wonder how many are House members or guys named Natvig.

    The other thing of interest are the guest passes. Who thought it was a good idea to produce ‘souvenir’ passes? Very tacky.

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