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Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., asked Attorney General Pam Bondi in an oversight hearing Wednesday if the Department of Justice has prepared a list of groups who have been designated as domestic terrorist organizations.

Bondi said antifa is on such a list. The term is a catchall for “anti-fascists,” who are far-left-leaning groups that often confront neo-Nazis and white supremacists at protests. Antifa is not a single entity.

Scanlon asked if Bondi will commit to providing that list to the committee.

“We will comply with the law in all matters,” Bondi said. Scanlon repeated her question.

“I’m not going to commit to anything to you because you won’t let me answer questions,” Bondi said.

“I’d remind you that when the U.S. government designates an entity as a foreign terrorist organization, it must report that to Congress and to the entity because the government can make a mistake and the entity has the opportunity to contest it,” Scanlon said. “Your position seems to be that if you falsely designate an American or an American organization as a terrorist group, there’s nothing they can do about it.”

“I think we get it. You don’t want to answer the question,” she added.

Bondi shot back, saying, “You don’t get anything regarding public safety. Nothing.”

“Thank you for the insult,” Scanlon said.

The hearing was an opportunity for lawmakers to question Bondi on a number of controversial issues involving the Justice Department, including around the Trump administration’s failure to meet a Congress-mandated deadline to release all of its Epstein files; the legal justification for the administration’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific; as well as prosecutions of perceived Trump political rivals like James Comey and Letitia James. Bondi is seeking to revive both cases, which were already thrown out by a U.S. district judge.

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