Constitutional Opinion No. 2026-0793
America First Constitutional Standard — Version 1.0
Case Information
- Content Scored
- Kansas v. Garcia, 589 U.S. 191 (2020)
- Source
- Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Reports Vol. 589 (Preliminary Print, Part 2)
- Author
- Justice Samuel Alito (opinion of the Court; 5-4 on field/conflict preemption)
- Publication Date
- 2020-03-03
- Content Type
- Judicial Opinion / Legal-Normative Text
- Opinion Issued
- 2026-07-20
- AFCS Version
- 1.0
AF★CS
Verdict
81
/ 100
America First
Source: Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Reports Vol. 589 (Preliminary Print, Part 2)
Constitutional Alignment: 80·Factual Reliability: 88
Holding
Kansas's identity-theft and fraud statutes, used to convict unauthorized aliens who put another person's Social Security number on their tax-withholding forms, are not preempted by the Immigration Reform and Control Act — not expressly (the express clause reaches only employer sanctions), not by field preemption (IRCA's field is the I-9 system, not general use of information on tax forms), and not by conflict preemption (mere overlap with federal criminal law creates no conflict); the State may prosecute.
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It is the judgment of this Court that Opinion No. 2026-0793 is hereby entered into the record, in accordance with the America First Constitutional Standard. The score stands. The reasoning is published. The record is public.
The Standard is the Standard.