Puerto Rico has asked the Supreme Court to consider whether Congress in 2018 had authority under the U.S. Constitution to ban the sport of cockfighting in the territory after appeals courts upheld the ban. Cockfighting has been practiced on the island for 400 years and is recognized by Puerto Rican law to be a “cultural right of all Puerto Ricans.” In a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the high court July 12, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico lamented the outlawing 3 years ago of what some call the territory’s “national sport” and an important part of local culture. The Puerto Rican government filed the brief in support of petitioners suing to undo the ban, whose case is pending before the Supreme Court. The ban also hurt the local economy. Cockfighting injected $65 million annually into the territory’s economy and generated more than 11,000 jobs, the brief stated. By adopting Section 12616 …