You have defined a problem. What's your solution?
Isn't it possible that the people of Alabama are operating in good faith outside the influence of Karl Rove?
As to the Federal courts - if the Executive and Legislative branches fail to balance them, then that balance has to come from the states and the people.
My thesis is that over 90 percent of the folks we elect are fakes and phonies and that includes deeper “RED” states like AL.
The gov and most of the legislature GOP-E.
The elected Chief Justice of AL Roy Moore is the only for sure outsider I know of in that state, but there are others around but only a few.