Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner argued in the latest episode of his "Justice Matters" program that President Donald Trump's new attorney general attempted to stonewall state investigations into killings by ICE agents in Minneapolis — but that there are now clear signs the effort failed and that charges against those agents could follow soon.

Kirschner began his career as a prosecutor in the U.S. Army and later spent decades as an assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., before becoming an NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst.

The deaths of the two victims, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, provoked a nationwide uproar and ultimately forced the Trump administration to withdraw from its federal occupation of Minneapolis. The case sits on a recurring fault line in American federalism: when federal agents use deadly force on U.S. soil, states can assert their own authority to investigate, which makes state access to federally held scene evidence and video pivotal for local prosecutors. Yet as Minnesota officials investigated, Kirschner said, the Justice Department withheld key material from the state.

"Donald Trump's DOJ hid the evidence from the scenes of those two homicides, refused to share it with the state, even though the state had jurisdiction, indeed had a responsibility to investigate those two officer-involved fatal shootings," Kirschner said.

The timeline itself looks questionable, according to Kirschner. "The federal government — that would be Donald Trump's dirty DOJ officials — refused to share the evidence for six months before finally turning it over to Minnesota investigators. The Department of Justice handed over the long-withheld evidence in the Good and Pretti killings to state prosecutors on July 13th, 2026."

Just days later, Todd Blanche — a former federal prosecutor who previously served as Trump's personal criminal defense lawyer — was confirmed as attorney general. Kirschner suggested the evidence was released only to "moot out the issue" for holdout GOP senators ahead of the confirmation vote.

"Todd Blanche might as well have just hidden the killers in his basement, because he was accomplishing the same thing by hiding the evidence from the Minnesota state investigators and prosecutors. He was obstructing their investigation. But guess what? It didn't work," said Kirschner.

Hennepin County Prosecutor Mary Moriarty, whose office handles felony prosecutions in Minneapolis, recently addressed the case, stating: "I believe we have enough evidence to be able to, at some point here, make a decision about whether charging is appropriate."

In Kirschner's reading, Blanche's obstruction effort failed, and Minnesota now possesses the evidence it needs to complete its investigation. The open questions are now procedural: whether and when Moriarty's office announces charging decisions in one or both deaths, and how a Justice Department under Blanche responds to any state case against federal immigration agents.

"I don't know what DA Moriarty knows, what she finally was successful in wrestling out of the hands of Todd Blanche and the Department of Justice," Kirschner continued. "I don't know the entire universe of the evidence. But boy, what I saw on the videos of that ICE officer killing Renee Good, of those ICE officers killing Alex Pretti — I strongly suspect that DA Moriarty will charge the killers with some level of criminal homicide."

Source: Glenn Kirschner, "Justice Matters" — YouTube