Does the California Supreme Court have any authority to rewrite or amend the language of a constitutional amendment?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Saelee, 239 Cal.Rptr.3d 475, 28 Cal.App.5th 744 (Cal. App. 2018):

not enacted by the voters. This we will not do. ( People v. Hoffman (2015) 241 Cal.App.4th 1304, 1311, 194 Cal.Rptr.3d 658 ["In construing a measure, we may not undertake to rewrite its unambiguous language"].)

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