Ranked next to Louis Brandeis in point of liberalism among the six most irksome Justices FDR couldn’t stand, is Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (1862 – 1948).
“It has been pointed out that a number of cases in which Hughes sided with Liberals have involved civil liberties. On this phase of liberalism, Hughes has consistently upheld traditional American freedoms… In other cases, he has sided now with the liberals, now with the conservatives. He wrote the dissenting opinion when the New York Minimum Wage Law was invalidated, but he sided with the conservatives in the 6-to-3 decision outlawing the AAA. He voted in favor of the TVA, but also voted to limit [the] power of the Securities and Exchange Commission.”
