# Contested concept: filibuster

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- **Contestedness**: semantic
- **Diagnosis**: This masks a disagreement over the legitimacy of legislative delay. Proponents see it as a procedural trick to kill a bill; opponents may view it as necessary deliberation for complex legislation.
- **Canonical**: `/concept/filibuster` (data: `/concept/filibuster.json`)

## Senses in use
- **An illegitimate or undemocratic use of procedural tactics and excessive amendments to prevent a vote on legislation.** — used in 2 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [The tactics used by the House of Lords regarding the 2026 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill constituted a filibuster.](/claim/claim_2d051de6aa71.md) _(sense: An illegitimate or undemocratic use of procedural tactics and excessive amendments to prevent a vote on legislation.)_
- [The House of Lords' filibuster of the 2026 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was outrageous and undemocratic.](/claim/claim_2dbb9538c185.md) _(sense: An illegitimate or undemocratic use of procedural tactics and excessive amendments to prevent a vote on legislation.)_