AFJ’s Nonprofit and Political Advocacy blog deserves a tip of the hat for spotting this article out of New Mexico regarding several progressive groups fighting the state’s efforts to treat them as political committees.

The groups are asking that a federal judge declare the statutes unconstitutional or, in the alternative, declare that they don’t apply to the nonprofits; that a judge stop the secretary of state from requiring them to register as political committees and imposing sanctions if they do not; and the a judge order that the state pay their legal fees.