[Zhang Fei]

[If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both ]

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Can’t really imprison a judge. It would a Gracchi moment - unleashing furies that would result in the end of the Republic. Just as surely as the Gracchi brothers’ acts led to Marius’s and Sulla’s bloody rivalry, and ultimately to Julius Caesar’s dictatorship, going after judges would result in the eventual coronation of a king after decades of bloody civil war dwarfing the Late Unpleasantness.

[Jim Noble]

My quote was intended to highlight (in bold) the repeated use of "by force" in the statute.

It will be difficult to convict the conspirators of the use of force in their conspiracy, although apparently there is still concealed evidence that murder of the candidate or President-elect was discussed.