Iowa court suspends license of former South Dakota attorney general

created by rezanentevil on 01/02/2025 at 15:24 UTC

189 upvotes, 7 top-level comments (showing 7)

The Iowa Supreme Court has suspended for two months the law license of South Dakota’s former attorney general due to his involvement in a 2020 traffic fatality.

In September 2024, 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 also licensed to practice law in Iowa, he was notified last year that his Iowa license may be subject to a six-month suspension based on South Dakota’s actions.

Ravnsborg argued against such a suspension, citing the fact that he was born on an Iowa farm in Cherokee County and later served three military deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He told the court he believed he should “be given no more than a private reprimand” so he could move forward after four years of dealing with the matter.

At a recent hearing on the matter, the Iowa Attorney Disciplinary Board cited the six-month suspension of Ravnsborg’s South Dakota license and asked the Iowa justices to impose identical, reciprocal discipline.

The court instead issued an order stating, without explanation, that it “finds that a 60-day suspension of Ravnsborg’s license to practice law in Iowa is the appropriate discipline.”

Comments

Comment by humblekanyepie at 01/02/2025 at 15:34 UTC

82 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Disbar, revoke, I don't care. He should have that right stripped from him permanently, just as he stripped Joe Boever of his life.

Comment by stevepaul59 at 01/02/2025 at 15:38 UTC

54 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Just like Janklow, kill a pedestrian, don’t report it, deny everything when caught, move on, get license renewed and grift off of the routine attorney signatures.

Comment by Cooter_Jenkins_ at 01/02/2025 at 16:54 UTC

21 upvotes, 1 direct replies

It took 5 f@cking years?!

Comment by sitewolf at 01/02/2025 at 17:45 UTC

11 upvotes, 1 direct replies

The only people he should still be serving are at the fast food drive thru

Comment by Chevronet at 02/02/2025 at 13:27 UTC

5 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I’d bet my life saving that he knew he hit a human being. All of his actions, from the 911 call, to coming back the next day looking for the “deer” he hit, to him being the one who found Joe Boever, are telling.