If backed up with actions. But there is no evidence at all that Davis did that. Reagan backed up his words with actions by winning the Cold War. Kennedy backed up his words with massive funding for NASA. Bu Davis? He did nothing, nothing at all, to promote the establishment of a supreme court. He was more than happy to allow the senate to violate the constitution and didn't mind at all not having another branch of government to answer to.
Speculation. No proof. Diversion.