What a great idea. Let's start a movement to socialize the legal system. Why should only the rich be able to afford a good lawyer? Don't we all have a legal right to good representation regardless of our ability to pay? Conservative commentators should challenge liberals with this regularly. If socialized medicine is a good thing, then why not socialized justice? Some ambititious idiot liberal will take up the cause creating the perfect wedge issue. The trial lawyers would go beserk.
You probably haven't considered this but: The confiscation of the money and property, without any charges or convictions, that is used in the WOD is intended to deprive the defendant (alleged drug dealer/posessor) of competant legal representation by forcing him to rely on public defenders and bottom of the barrel attorneys. Socializing the legal system could, potentially, destroy this very valuable weapon in the War on Drugs.