South Dakota Senator releases Ravnsborg impeachment petitions

Photo by: South Dakota Attorney General's Office
Photo by: South Dakota Attorney General's Office

(Pierre, SD) -- South Dakota's Senate President Pro Tempore is defying the state Speaker of the House.

Lee Schoenbeck has released the Senate petitions indicating  which lawmakers did and didn't support the formation of a special committee to consider the impeachment of Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg. The release of the information was intended to short-circuit litigation between lawmakers and several media outlets requesting petitions related to several special sessions called by the Legislature. The requests include information about the Ravensborg session and sessions called on redistricting in 2011 and 2021.

The state Speaker of the House has opposed the releases of the petitions.