The former attorney general of South Dakota is objecting to a proposed six-month suspension of his Iowa law license due to his involvement in a 2020 traffic fatality, the Iowa Capitol Dispatch reported .
In September, the South Dakota Supreme Court suspended for six months the South Dakota law license of Jason Ravnsborg , who served as that state’s attorney general from 2019 until his impeachment and removal from office in 2022.
Because Ravnsborg is licensed to practice law in Iowa, he was recently notified that his Iowa license may also be subject to a six-month suspension based on South Dakota’s actions.
Ravnsborg recently filed a written response to that notice, arguing that an identical suspension in Iowa “would be too severe.” In his response, he cites the fact that he was born on an Iowa farm in Cherokee County and later served three military deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
In his response, Ravnsborg also says he believes that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, whom he had been investigating at the time of the fatality, “did everything she could to intimidate, interfere and influence” what he calls “the automobile investigation.” He adds that he still believes “she had to get me, otherwise she would be exposed for her actions.”