Oh, I'm sure of it. Just do the taxpayers a favor: use a private attorney or do it pro se, not the court appointed and taxpayer funded attorney for the 1983 action.
You are truly a self absorbed, vile person.
If her civil rights were violated, she has the right to be represented by an attorney. And it would serve the state right having to pay for her representation since it was the state who did wrong against her.
She can find a private lawyer--certainly with a cause so great, she can find a lawyer to do it pro bono--or represent herself.
Amazing though--you advocate spending government money for representing convicted persons in civil rights actions? You might as well quintuple the staff at the public defenders office and assign lawyers to every probation and parole office, county jail, state prison and federal prison in the nation. There will be literally hundreds of thousands of 1983 actions filed in every state in the nation. Oh, and while you're at it, quintuple the amount of federal judges and support staff, quintuple the amount of federal courthouses, and quintuple the amount of staff for each county and state in the country, as well as the Justice department. That's what you want, right?
Boy, I thought conservatives were for less government spending, not more.