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New York, Dec 17 (IANS) The state judge in the hush money case against President-Elect Donald Trump has let his conviction stand, rejecting his argument that a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity applied to the case. Judge Juan Merchan’s ruling casts the shadow of a criminal conviction over Trump as he prepares to assume the presidency next month. The judge said that the Supreme Court ruling applied only to his official actions and not to his personal conduct. The judge, however, had earlier agreed to indefinitely postpone the sentencing in the case Trump was convicted of falsifying business records…