Ryan Lucas

There was no immediate comment from the U.S.

Attorney's Office in D.C.

Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.

He was asked point blank whether Trump was treated the same as everyone else who appears in the files and whether everything in there related to him is being released.

It was a pertinent question in part because Blanch himself previously served

as Trump's personal defense attorney.

Now, Blanch replied that the department complied with the law.

He also denied that the DOJ protected Trump in any way.

He said there's a hunger for information out there that won't be satisfied by the release of these files.

Now, some of that hunger, it has to be said, has been fueled by Trump and other top administration officials, including at the Justice Department.

Here's NPR's Ryan Lucas.

It's normal after a shooting that involves a law enforcement officer for the FBI and the Justice Department to conduct a civil rights investigation.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch has said publicly he sees no need to do so in Good's killing.

And the FBI is not conducting a civil rights investigation into Pretty's killing either.

That's according to three sources who spoke with me on condition of anonymity.

due to the sensitivity of this issue.

The three new resignations at the U.S.

Attorney's Office in Minnesota include a division chief.

The departures add to the already significant exodus of veteran attorneys from the office there in recent weeks.

They come as the Trump administration continues its ramped-up immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, where federal agents have shot and killed two U.S.