BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A Jefferson County judge today set a Monday hearing on a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama's citizenship and right to be on the 2012 ballots in Alabama.

Circuit Judge Helen Shores Lee will consider a request by Mark Kennedy, chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party, to dismiss the suit filed against him on Dec. 14 by Birmingham resident Albert E. Hendershot.

The hearing will start at 9 a.m. Jan. 9 in Lee's Birmingham courtroom.

Hendershot wants Lee to issue an injunction blocking Obama from being certified as a candidate in Alabama. His suit claims he has "staggering evidence" that Obama is using a forged birth certificate and a false Social Security number.

"Barack Hussein Obama II is not a natural born citizen and is not qualified to be on the ballot as a presidential candidate," Hendershot wrote in his suit, which he said is part of an informal effort in several Southern states to keep Obama off ballots in those states.

Democratic Party officials say Obama's citizenship and right to serve as president is a settled matter. Last year the White House released copies of Obama's long-form birth certificate saying he was born in Hawaii in 1961.

Obama's citizenship -- and his right to hold the office of president -- has been called into question during both his 2008 and current election bids. Last year, 24 percent of respondents in a USA Today/Gallup poll questioned whether Obama was a U.S. citizen.

Federal judges dismissed lawsuits in 2008 and 2009 challenging Obama's citizenship and right to serve as president.

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