President Joe Biden earlier this month quietly fired two presidential appointees from the waning days of the Trump administration who sued the Department of Education for refusing to deliver their signed presidential commissions. The two men, economics professor Steve Hanke and law professor John Yoo, were appointed by then-President Donald Trump to the National Board for Education Sciences (NBES) when he signed their respective commissions in December 2020. Hanke is at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and Yoo is at the University of California, Berkeley. The appointees stayed in touch with the department about the paperwork when the Trump administration was in power and after the Biden administration took office, but when they began to press for their commissions to be delivered, the Biden-controlled agency stopped communicating with them, according to their lawyers at Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a Sacramento, California-based national public interest law firm. The appointees argued that …