The question is why 53 US Senators are willing to give up that Constitutional obligation.
Am I misreading this?
I suspect that a strawman is being established.
It’s a little bizarre, but given the timing and bizarre nature of recent events, the following is possible:
It is likely that Hillary Clinton’s sever was hacked, or she transferred sensitive information through personal emails.
Thus, if we claim that her purposeful use of personal emails was an act of treason, then the left can trot out this example, and the MSM now has its equivalency angle to make Hillary’s problems go away. Some of the sheeple buy this kind of reasoning (everybody does it)