Washington (CNN) Lawyers for the Democratic-led House of Representatives as well as California and other Democratic-led states asked the Supreme Court Friday to immediately step in to decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act.

Calling the law a "fixture of the American health-care system" Donald Verrilli, a lawyer for the House, urged the justices in legal briefs to review a "remarkable" lower court decision that "threatens profound destabilization of the health care system."

"The present case represents yet another effort by litigants who disagree with the policy judgments embodied in the ACA to use the courts, rather than the democratic process, to undo the work of the people's elected representatives," the filing states.

Last month, a federal appeals court held that the law's individual mandate was unconstitutional , but sent the case back down to a lower court to decide whether other provisions of the sprawling law should remain in effect.

The petition filed by supporters of the law is a long shot bid because the Supreme Court does not usually like to take up an issue until it has made its way through the lower courts. But if the necessary four justices agree to hear the case and expedite it for this term -- it would mean that the justices would render a decision concerning the fate of the controversial law this spring, just as the presidential election gears up.

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