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The ACLU and other activists quickly turned to upcoming elections to call for action. Former president of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards spoke out about the travel ban decision as well as a separate decision regarding crisis pregnancy centers, saying \"we've got to be ready for November.\"

SCOTUS today: upholds the immoral Muslim ban and says it’s just fine for fake clinics paid for with tax $ to lie to women about their pregnancies and withhold medical information. We’ve got to be ready for November.

— Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) June 26, 2018

Hawaii challenged the travel ban partly on the grounds that it hurt the state's university system by banning potential students from entering the country. The president of the Association of American Universities said the travel ban will have \"deleterious effects\" on higher education in the U.S. but that the association they will continue working with the federal government.

\"Our global leadership role would not be possible without the extraordinary flow of international talent, drawn here by academic opportunity and American values. It is critical to American economic competitiveness that the U.S. remain open to the world’s best students, scientists, and scholars,\" AAU President Mary Sue Coleman said in a statement.

ABC News' Luke Barr and Samantha Reilly contributed to this report.

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