at 5 republican lawsuits alleging voting irregularities for more on that we're joined by claire finkelstein, he's faculty director of the center for ethics and the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania law school. a good to have you with this here on the program. it's trying to present conceded defeat, speaking as a seam says that there are still legal challenges pending. what would you say these latest legal defeats in pennsylvania mean for the trump campaign? they're very significant. there are 2 defeats in particular that the trump folks have been really counting on. one was that cured ballots in montgomery county, namely absentee ballots where voters were contacted to come and remedy formal deficiencies in their ballots, such as failing to sign the back of the arm below. and that practice which exists not only in pennsylvania but also in georgia and in nevada. the challenges to that practice were defeated, as well as the challenge to the absentee ballots that were permitted to come in between and be counted between election day and the following friday. and that was a major play

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claire finkelstein is faculty director of the center for ethics on the rule of law. at the university of pennsylvania law school, she says the lawsuits were empty efforts from the start. the legal challenges could not have made a difference to donald trump, even if all of the legal challenges and all of the states had prevailed. donald trump could not have won this election, and indeed the number of electors that joe biden won the election with was the same number of electors that donald trump characterized as a landslide. in his own case, donald trump would have to reverse pennsylvania and all the other swing states in order to reverse that decision here, and that will not happen. it cannot be done. what the supporters believe about these decisions is almost up to donald trump because many of donald trump, supporters seem to believe what ever he tells them. so if he says that these decisions were corrupt, unfortunately, they may believe that, but one hopes that the weight of evidence, as well as the statements of his own department of homeland security, saying that

none of the complaints provide examples of what trump claims is massive voter frauds or claire finkelstein is a professor of law and director at the center for ethics and the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania she says the lawsuits are not going to change the state's overall result. i'm here at ground 0 of this litigation namely in pennsylvania and there have been numerous lawsuits filed for example objections to the curing of ballots in which mail in ballots were defective for some formal reason and it standard procedure here to call up the voters and give them a chance to correct those ballots for example by signing the outside of an armadillo. there's the lawsuit about how close republican observers members of the truck campaign can stand to the tables where the ballots are being recounted there's lawsuits around in what's called provisional ballots but it looks as though 1st of all this is the most important point none of these lawsuits could result in flipping the results in pennsylvania because the number of ballots involved is just too small and joe biden's lead in pennsy

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very happy coming to horace there well joining us now is claire finkelstein a professor of law and professor of philosophy and faculty director at the center for ethics and the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania law school thank you so much for being with us at this historic moment let me start by asking you saying as we just saw celebrate there as a woman what does that mean to you. this is an incredible glass ceiling moment for all women everywhere. especially as a lawyer to watch future vice president campbell how are us getting ready to step up to the rule that no woman in this country has ever held and especially as a woman of color is incredibly exciting and inspiring to all of us claire i don't want to put a damper on things but we obviously have been hearing from the trunk campaign that they are refusing to concede that they are going to pursue this litigation in pennsylvania they're going to take up other unspecified litigation on monday what do you make of that and is there a threat here that this could drag on for weeks that the results could be brought into doubt. as d

joining us for more is shopify president harley finkelstein good to have you. >> always a pleasure tohaving me. >> talk about the demand for this alipay partnership from your clients and from these american consumer or american or canadian consumer companies. >> frankly, shopify is a global company. and the role we play for more than a million businesses is that of a retail operating system shopify is where they run their business from. as we're in preparations as we get into black friday, cyber monday, that happens next week, we're recognizing the importance of major shopping holidays not just in north america but around the world. this partnership with alipay, the merchants at shopify can reach consumers well beyond just north america. as you mention in your opening remarks there are about a billion active users using alipay, 100 million more users our merchants we want to make sure have access to all those users and transact in the way they prefer. some prefer alipay over credit cards. some countries like germany we enable debit card transactions waus that's what consumers there pr

of evidence none of the complaints provide examples of what trump claims is massive voter fraud finkelstein is a professor of law and director at the center for ethics and the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania she joins us now live via skype from pennsylvania. thrown off of the wall some of it will eventually stick is there any chance of any of this litigation impacting the final outcome of this election. well if union doesn't look like that's the case and here at ground 0 of this litigation namely in pennsylvania and there have been numerous lawsuits filed for example objections to the curing of ballots in which mail in ballots were defective for some formal reason and it standard procedure here to call up the voters and give them a chance to correct those ballots for example by signing the outside of an armful of. there's the lawsuit about how close republican observers members of the truck campaign can stand to the tables where the ballots are being recounted to there's lawsuits around in what's called provisional ballots but it looks as though 1st of all this is the most imp