(CNN) The House of Representatives argued in a new court filing on Monday that it needs information from the secret grand jury used in former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation to help in its current impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.

The filing is the first major argument the House has made in court invoking its Trump-Ukraine impeachment inquiry , which is still in its early days.

The filing comes in a case where the House Judiciary Committee seeks information in the Mueller report that is redacted because it came from secret grand jury proceedings. Grand jury confidentiality has a high bar for access, but in this case, the judge's decision could come down to the needs of the House and Senate in a "judicial proceeding," such as impeachment.

Details in the Mueller report about Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible efforts by the President to obstruct that investigation "may also be relevant to the House's investigation of the President's solicitation of Ukrainian interference in the 2020 election," House lawyers wrote in the filing on Monday.

The House points out that some redacted grand jury details in the Mueller report relate to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's associations with Ukraine -- of which he has many -- and to Trump's interest in WikiLeaks' plans to release documents that could help his 2016 campaign.

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