Without a supreme court to reign in his abuse of power, Davis did just that. Thousands of people jailed without trial, simply on the order of the habeas corpus commissioners; conscription; forced extension of enlistments; income tax; protective tariffs; government control of industry; government seizure of agricultural produce and shipping space without compensation. How much of that would have withstood the scrutiny of a supreme court? Not a lot. Yet every one of those was a policy implemented by the Davis regime. Why would he ever want to subject those to the scrutiny of a court that might tell him that he couldn't do it? Him. Jefferson Davis. The idea that there might be someone who would possibly say 'No' to his was insulting to him. So the idea that he would ever fight for the establishment of a supreme court is ridiculous.
ROTFLMAO! Like the US Supreme Court stopped Lincoln???? He wouldn't even obey a lawful decision of Chief Justice Taney.
You make it sound like President Davis pulled a Lincoln. SC Sen. James Lawrence Orr wrote the following in 'Report of the Senate Committee on President Davis's Last Message',
'It is also true that the President has recommended the passage of a law suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus.'
Justice John A. Campbell, Reminiscences and Documents Relating To The Civil War During the Year 1865, Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1887, p. 81.