  We show that new physics which breaks the left-handed SU(3)_Q quark flavor
symmetry induces contributions to CP violation in Delta F = 1 couplings which
are approximately universal, in that they are not affected by flavor rotations
between the up and the down mass bases. (Only the short distance contributions
are universal, while observables are also affected by hadronic matrix
elements.) Therefore, such flavor violation cannot be aligned, and is
constrained by the strongest bound from either the up or the down sectors. We
use this result to show that the bound from eps'/eps prohibits an SU(3)_Q
breaking explanation of the recent LHCb evidence for CP violation in D meson
decays. Another consequence of this universality is that supersymmetric
alignment models with a moderate mediation scale are consistent with the data,
and are harder to probe via CP violating observables. With current constraints,
therefore, squarks need not be degenerate. However, future improvements in the
measurement of CP violation in D-Dbar mixing will start to probe alignment
models.
