NPR offers this audio report, which begins: ” Questions about political pressure in the Justice Department are spilling over into the New Hampshire phone-jamming case. Five years ago, New Hampshire Republicans jammed the phones of Democratic offices on Election Day, disrupting the Democrats’ get-out-the-vote efforts and blocking phone calls from voters seeking rides to the polls. More than two years later, the New England coordinator for the Republican National Committee — who green-lighted the scheme — was charged with a felony and convicted. But last week, a federal appeals court overturned the conviction. Democrats allege that Justice Department officials in Washington interfered in the case, and they want Congress to investigate.” Meanwhile, BNA reports ($) that “The Justice Department has not decided yet whether to appeal a court ruling that threw out the conviction of a former top Republican Party official in a criminal case stemming from phone-jamming in the election in New Hampshire in 2002, a DOJ spokesman said March 26 (U.S. v. Tobin, 1st Cir., No. 06-1883, 3/21/07).”