Congress enacts a criminal statute prohibiting "any person from interfering in any way with any right conferred on another person by the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Application of this statute to Jones, a private citizen, would be most clearly constitutional if Jones, with threats of violence, coerces
a public school teacher to exclude AfricanAmerican pupils from her class, solely because of their race.  African-American pupils, solely because of their race, to refrain from attending a privately owned and operated school licensed by the state.  the bus driver operating a free school bus service under the sponsorship of a local church to refuse to allow AfricanAmerican pupils on the bus, solely because of their race.  the federal official in charge of distributing certain federal benefits directly to students from distributing them to African-American pupils, solely because of their race