They had long engaged in a bitter rivalry with the other great military order of Europe, the Hospitallers, and, by the late 13th century, proposals were being made to merge the two contentious orders into one.
There's also the matter of subsequent presidents, any of whom may reverse their predecessors' orders, just as Trump did with a number of President Barack Obama's more contentious orders, like the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals immigration program.
As Mr. Bush was in Florida defending his contentious order establishing tribunals to try suspected terrorists who are not American citizens, the issue was being scrutinized in Washington at a Senate subcommittee hearing, where the order was both praised and criticized by a diverse group of legal authorities.
By moving up the news, which was expected later this week, and attracting a more mainstream, less wonky viewership, the Trump administration likely seeks to divert attention away from the heated national conversation prompted by last week's contentious immigration order.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco will hear arguments regarding President Trump's highly contentious executive order on Tuesday, which bans all refugees and immigrants from seven countries with large Muslim populations from entering the US, Politico reports.
Not unexpectedly, the rise of so contentious a new order, and the man who so unexpectedly launched it, have hatched a considerable library of condemnation, all the more as his re-election campaign gets under way.
The past two weeks on the campaign trail have been plumped up by goings on at two consecutive debates, and while those were contentious, they seemed ordered.
Lock-down solutions, whether they involve authoritarian appeals to science or contentious uses of second-order philosophy, drive too many people from the debate.
Which seems to be Britain trying to separate-out a non-contentious issue in order to at least tick one thing off of their Herculean "to do" list.
They're frequently preceded by a flurry of red flags: 911 calls, hospitalizations, broken protective orders, repeat arrests, contentious custody battles, death threats and stalking.
As a frequent consumer of Starbucks, I have yet to encounter the slogan or the ensuing exchange of views, but the most contentious aspect for me when ordering coffee — until now, anyway — has been the perpetual misspelling of my name on the side of the cup.
