Philadelphia’s progressive district attorney, Larry Krasner, had some of his authority stripped and diverted to a new prosecutorial position due to his failed “liberal, woke” policies, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

Last week, Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro signed into law Senate Bill 140, which creates a new special prosecutor role for mass transit. According to the measure, the special prosecutor has the power to “investigate and institute criminal proceedings for a violation of the laws of this Commonwealth occurring within a public transportation authority.”

“The special prosecutor’s prosecutorial jurisdiction shall include the power and independent authority to exercise all investigative and prosecutorial functions and powers of an office of the district attorney,” the bill added.

[Interesting that this is a Democrat governor that has taken action against a high-profile, Soros-supported progressive DA. Krasner calls this “an attack on democracy,” but this statute passed the state legislature and got signed by Shapiro, which is an exercise in representative democracy. — Ed]