When people say this week's SCOTUS ruling on the Voting Rights Act signals Jim Crow 2.0, this is what they mean The Voting Rights Act still stands, but it’s been severely damaged. Here’s a simple explanation of what happened. Under Section 2 of the VRA, communities who had their votes suppressed, diluted, or diseased by a voting law could raise a legal challenge to that law. For example, redrawing a Black-majority district so that white votes count more than Black votes could be challenged under Section 2. To succeed, the voters did not have to prove that racist goals were the INTENT of the challenged law. Rather, they only had to show racist discrimination was the OUTCOME. Trumps conservative majority flipped that rule on its head. Now, politicians can pass a law that suppresses the votes of People of Color. Then they can simply claim they had a partisan reason, such as protecting an incumbent or maintaining a Republican majority.…