The U.S. Constitution has been disregarded in the handling of the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol building, says Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas). Gohmert condemned the treatment of those accused of participating in the Capitol breach and accused the Department of Justice of becoming a “partisan political tool.” “As a former prosecutor, former judge, if we’re going to have justice in America, we have to follow the Constitution. And it seems to have been tossed by the side when it comes to Jan. 6,” Gohmert told NTD’s Capitol Report. “What especially was egregious is knowing that the Constitution, courts have made clear you cannot punish people that are in pretrial confinement—they’ve not been convicted,” the lawmaker explained. “You should only hold people for two reasons, basically, in pretrial confinement, and that is, if they’re a threat to others, or themselves, or they are flight risk threat not to be there …