No, Charles Evans Hughes was not a socialist. In 1920, he defended a group of socialists accused of sedition under the draconian Alien and Sedition Act and won an acquittal for them in court. Insisting people to the left of center receive the same constitutional protections as people to the right of center does not make one a socialist.
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