WASHINGTON DC (May 12, 2020) — Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA), and Cory Booker (D-NJ), lead authors and sponsors of the First Step Act — landmark criminal-justice reform legislation — today submitted a bipartisan Amicus Brief to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in United States of America v Alan L Mapuatuli, a case related to the reduction of the second-strike and third-strike drug mandatory-minimums.