SEATTLE — Washington state’s lengthy warehousing of mentally ill defendants in jails before trial is “far beyond any constitutional limits” and “must stop,” a federal judge said earlier this week. U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman in Seattle issued her ruling in a class-action lawsuit challenging the practice. “The state has consistently and over a long period of time violated the constitutional rights of the mentally ill — this must stop,” the judge wrote. At …