AUGUSTA, Maine (AP)   A low-income advocacy organization is asking a state judge in Maine to order the LePage administration to submit to a plan to expand Medicaid.

The Portland Press Herald reports that Justice Michaela Murphy said Thursday she’d rule as soon as possible, but didn’t provide a specific timetable.

The administration missed the April 3 deadline for filing the plan to start the process of expanding the government-funded health care program. But an attorney for the administration said committing to the plan is committing to funding.

And funding is at the center of the administration’s argument. Lawmakers adjourned without producing a funding plan that’s acceptable to the Republican governor.

The Medicaid expansion aimed at providing health care to 70,000 Mainers was approved by a statewide referendum that didn’t provide a funding source.