How long does it take to vet a major-party candidate for national political office? In the case of Roy Moore, the disgraced former Alabama judge with a stomach-turning history of sexually abusing minors, the answer is apparently "some period of time longer than eleven weeks." Even though only one more day remains until the people of Alabama head to the polls and select Jeff Sessions' replacement—and even though Democrat Doug Jones has a surprising fifty-fifty shot at sparing us from the indignity of watching a predator join the world's greatest deliberative body—we are still unearthing new bits of evidence from Moore's past proving just how unfit he is to serve as a member of the United States Senate.

In 2011, Moore appeared as an occasional guest on a Maine radio show produced by a handful of "sovereign citizen" types who regale listeners with a mix of anarchist pseudophilosophy and false flag conspiracy theories. In one episode tracked down by CNN, Moore expressed support for a hypothetical constitutional amendment, first proposed by one of the hosts, that would nullify all amendments after the Tenth Amendment.

"That would eliminate many problems," Moore replied. "You know people don't understand how some of these amendments have completely tried to wreck the form of government that our forefathers intended."

Here are just some of the amendments that would be eliminated from the U.S. Constitution under this modest proposal.

Thirteenth Amendment: Abolished slavery.

Fourteenth Amendment: Extended citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States (read: African-American former slaves), and prohibits states from enacting laws that would deprive citizens of their constitutional rights.

Fifteenth Amendment: Prohibits denial of franchise based on race.

Nineteenth Amendment: Prohibits denial of franchise based on sex.

Twenty-Fourth Amendment: Prohibits collection of poll taxes, which were used to depress African-American turnout.

Moore made the Fourteenth Amendment the primary target of his displeasure, although his argument against it is so incoherent that parsing its factually inaccurate premises is sort of a waste of time. He also railed against the evils of the Seventeenth Amendment, which abolished the practice of state legislatures electing senators and instead provided for the direct election of senators by popular vote—a somewhat ironic position for him to take, in retrospect, since the right of the people of Alabama to choose their next representative in the upper chamber is, at this point, the only reason that he is still a viable candidate.

A Moore campaign spokesperson and amateur gaslighting enthusiast responded to CNN's request for comment by blaming the network for its accurate reporting of Moore's own words. "Once again, the media is taking a discussion about the overall framework for the separation of powers as laid out in the constitution to twist Roy Moore's position on specific issues," the person said, explaining that Moore does not believe that all amendments after the Tenth Amendment should be eliminated despite the existence of an interview in which the candidate voiced support for that precise idea. "Roy Moore does not now nor has he ever favored limiting an individual's right to vote, and as a judge, he was noted for his fairness and for being a champion of civil rights," they added, referring to the man who recently opined that the last time America was "great" was during the existence of slavery.

Whether Roy Moore literally believes these things, though, distilling them to bullet points in the "On the Issues" tab of his campaign's website, is far less important than what they signify about how Roy Moore sees the world. Despite his demonstrable contempt for what the law does and does not permit, its content is not exactly a mystery to him. And no reasonable person with even a perfunctory knowledge of the Constitution would make these types of sweeping generalizations unless they, at the very least, wouldn't be particularly troubled if anyone who hears him concludes that he really does believe that America would be a better place if it were to do things like re-institute slavery, and disenfranchise minorities, and enable states to discriminate against their citizens. It functions as another dog-whistle stunt for a man who has proven adept at executing them: Moore castigates the media as hysterical and dishonest, all while winking at those voters who see their biases and prejudices reflected in him and decide that it's high time that those beliefs once again had a spokesperson in the United States Senate.