Prop. 50 passage sets off a chain of political and legal maneuvers

When California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50 on Tuesday, they set in motion political and possibly legal maneuvers that will ultimately determine whether its overt purpose, increasing Democratic congressional members by five or more seats, becomes reality.
The first is a political scramble among politicians in both parties to determine who will run where in next year’s congressional elections.
Ambitious Democrats are lining up to run in the newly gerrymandered districts, som