>> reporter: another significant setback for the trump administration in this ongoing legal drama over the president's travel ban. this time, a majority of judges on the fourth circuit court of appeals upholding a lower court's decision to indefinitely halt the ban, finding that it likely violates the constitution because its primary purpose was to disfavor muslims. the court's ruling on this was lengthy and scathing, explaining in part that congress granted the president broad powers, but when it comes to immigration, the president's power can't go unchecked. the trump administration had tried to justify their attempt to ban foreign nationals from six muslim majority countries on national security grounds, but at the end of the day, trump's own words doomed any legal justification his lawyers could have offered in this case with the majority of the judges finding that "then candidate trump's campaign statements reveal that on numerous