does in fact target muslims and that in doing so it violates the constitution's protections of religious freedom in the united states and in fact the dissent we saw in the court was particularly scathing they said a reasonable observer would conclude that the proclamation was motivated by an anti muslim sentiment so really we're seeing a lot of hostile reaction to this ruling as perhaps the court having made a mistake now it's worth mentioning that this is the third iteration of the travel ban that donald trump has tried to have stay in effect you might remember the first one he introduced right at the start of his presidency which canceled tens of thousands of visas caused chaos at airports where we saw travelers stranded unclear whether they could actually make it into the united states or not but the courts lower courts in some states challenge this they managed to turn down both of those previous two versions and so this third version does not go as far as donald trump had hoped ever it is very much still a political victory for him that the top court in the nation today has said that he