South Dakota House committee recommends no impeachment charges for Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, who hit and killed a man on a rural highway in 2020

A South Dakota House committee recommended on Monday that the state's attorney general face no impeachment charges for his actions surrounding a 2020 fatal car crash.

Gov. Kristi Noem had pushed for Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, a fellow Republican, to be removed from office. But a Republican-controlled House committee voted on party lines to issue a report that found his actions did not merit impeachment. Individual House lawmakers may still bring impeachment charges against Ravnsborg, but the committee's decision was a major setback for those trying to remove him from office.

The two Democrats on the nine-member committee issued a minority report that recommended he be impeached.