Our photo today is by Flickr user Terecico, taken in John Marshall Park. The depth in the composition accentuates the King’s rough surface, making it look well-worn from decades of games in the park. Doesn’t it make you want to head outside and grab a quiet table in the shade right about now? The photo’s EXIF details can be found here. As a reminder, if you’d like DCist to use your Flickr photo for…

Last week, Stare DCisis explored what happens when the Supreme Court stops being polite, and starts getting real with states acting unconstitutionally. Virginia, in particular, was the perpetual thorn in the side of the early Supreme Court. Though Chief Justice John Marshall was a former Virginia legislator, the state’s supreme court had some real authority problems taking orders from Marshall once he moved across the river. It may seem patently obvious that the Supreme Court…

This spring, like every spring, is sponsored by Crate & Barrel, Williams Sonoma and, depending on your friends, Tiffany’s. It’s wedding season around the country, and Federal Marriage Amendment season on the Hill. Our lawmakers have decided that this issue merits a great deal of their time, and our own, so in this spirit Stare DCisis revisits one of the most important constitutional decisions about marriage that was ever handed down by the Supreme Court….

As the Senate convenes this week to determine which side is more stubborn in its demand to shape the federal judiciary, we figured this was a good time to look at a slightly less ugly aspect of our country’s court system: John Marshall Park. The spot of land we know today as Judiciary Square was a lot of things before it became just another few blocks of federal Washington. Long before there was a…