Boston Nonprofit Emerges as Legal Engine of Trump Resistance

A Boston-based nonprofit civil rights organization with just eight staff attorneys has established itself as a significant threat to President Donald Trump’s federal immigration policies.

Lawyers for Civil Rights, one of eight local affiliates of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, has already hit the administration with three lawsuits challenging its policies on birthright citizenship, sanctuary cities, and a humanitarian temporary protected status program.

With more suits in the works, the organization is becoming a core piece of the Democrats’ opposition to the administration—which has relied in part on filing cases before receptive courts. It’s secured ...