PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is pressuring House lawmakers weighing impeachment charges against the state’s attorney general to release investigative files on his 2020 fatal car crash. The Republican governor last year delivered the crash investigation to House Speaker Spencer Gosch. The Republican lawmaker had pledged a transparent process as a House investigative committee sifts through the file. But little of its information has been released publicly. Noem has stayed involved in the episode ever since Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg struck and killed a man walking on a rural stretch of highway in September of 2020. She has called for her fellow Republican’s dismissal.
Additionally, in a statement yesterday (Jan. 24, 2022) Noem said she’s “seen the entire investigative file, and the public deserves to see it so that they can learn the truth of what happened. The House has the sole constitutional power of impeachment, and they have the responsibility to see this process through in a timely manner.”
Noem’s Secretary of Public Safety, Craig Price, sent the file to House Speaker Spencer Gosch in September 2021, handing the file over to him. The House impeachment resolution states that ‘all members of the House of Representatives shall have nonpublic access to all information gathered by the select committee.
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