Write it! Write it! It would be so awesome - and much messier in some ways then even the suck that is actual canon, because if Steve wasn't oh-so-convienently dead, the SHRA would get a turn under the legal and media microscope when he went on trial (which would be, like, the biggest media-circus celebrity trial in the history of ever), and the government would still have Steve as this controvercial anti-registration figure to deal with, instead of being able to sweep him under the rug and replace him with Bucky.

Why do I feel like no one has thought of this before? Or, why not write it if they've thought about it.

Well, when we thought of it, we were already halfway through RR&R, and we figured one epic-length Bring Back Cap fic was enough (so we took the "putting the SHRA on trial" concept and retooled into "having a congressional committee hold hearings on the SHRA" and used it in Readjustment, where it was sadly lacking in the glorious plotbunny-inspiring scene of Matt delivering a grandstanding speech about injustice to the jury in the style of Inherit the Wind).