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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</span></font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Republican attorney general in South Dakota, who appears to have escaped impeachment following his involvement in a fatal hit-and-run crash, reportedly has a habit of using his position of power to avoid traffic tickets.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to a <a href="https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/236657.pdf" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">South Dakota Highway Traffic report</a> by the CBS News affiliate station, KELOLAND, South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg (R) has a checkered driving history riddled with traffic stops. But despite being pulled over by police a total of 15 times in the last two years, the Republican state official has only been ticketed twice.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The news outlet also <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/south-dakota-attorney-general-jason-ravnsborg-pulled-rank-to-weasel-out-of-traffic-tickets-report-says?ref=home" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">highlighted one traffic stop that serves as an example of how Ravnsborg managed to use his position to his advantage.</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"That’s when a Gettysburg police officer pulled Ravnsborg over for going 50 miles an hour on a stretch of road with a 35 mile an hour speed limit," KELOLAND reported. "According to the highway patrol document, Ravnsborg told the officer he was the attorney general, was on his way to a meeting and felt the speed was necessary."</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The officer who facilitated that traffic stop ultimately let Ravnsborg go with a warning. The traffic report also indicates that <b>Ravnsborg had other exchanges with police officers in the months leading up to the fatal crash.</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The latest development follows the highly publicized hit-and-run crash that claimed the life of a man named Joe Boever. As a result of that fatal crash, Ravnsborg was <b>charged with three misdemeanors including: "using a phone while driving,</b> using traffic lanes unsafely, and driving carelessly."</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">However, he still managed to sidestep felony charges.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</span></font></div><div><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24102019/south-dakota-anti-protest-law-riot-boosting-oil-pipeline-penalties-transcanada"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24102019/south-dakota-anti-protest-law-riot-boosting-oil-pipeline-penalties-transcanada</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">South Dakota officials have agreed to walk back parts of the state's new anti-protest laws that opponents say were meant to target Native American and environmental advocates who speak out against the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gov. Kristi Noem and state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg agreed in a settlement Thursday with Native American and environmental advocates that the state would never enforce portions of the recently passed laws that criminalize "riot boosting"—which it applied, not just to protesters, but to supporters who encourage but never take part in acts of "force or violence" themselves.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The settlement, which makes permanent a <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6422109/SDpipeline.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">temporary ruling</a> issued by a federal judge in September, has immediate implications for opponents of the Keystone pipeline in South Dakota and could challenge the validity of similar laws targeting pipeline and environmental protestors in other states....</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">===</span></font></div>