Suit to keep President Barack Obama off Alabama primary ballots dismissed by Jefferson County judge

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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama --- A Jefferson County judge this morning dismissed a Birmingham man's lawsuit seeking to keep President Barack Obama off primary ballots March 13 in Alabama.

After a hearing in her Birmingham courtroom, Circuit Judge Helen Shores Lee ruled that the courts have no authority to tell the state political parties who they can include on their primary ballots.

Albert E. Hendershot filed the suit Dec. 13 against Mark Kennedy, chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party. He contends he has "staggering" evidence that Obama is using a forged birth certificate and fake Social Security card, and that he is ineligible to serve as president because he is not a natural-born citizen.
Hendershot asked Lee to order party officials to produce Obama's birth certificate and Social Security application, and hear other evidence in Hendershot's bid to bar the state Democratic Party from listing Obama on the primary ballot.

Kennedy's lawyers argued that Hendershot's suit was frivolous, he did not have any legal grounds to challenge the party's candidate-selection method and the courts have no control over the party primary process.
An appeal is likely. Hendershot's case has been taken on by Orly Taitz, a California lawyer who has filed several lawsuits challenging Obama's legitimacy as president. Taitz did not attend Monday's hearing.

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