Put yourself on the Senate Judiciary Committee for a minute. What would you want to ask Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor at her confirmation hearing, which begins Monday at 10 a.m. ET?

We're collecting submissions via our Twitter page. Just hashtag them #asksotomayor, and you can see all such tweets here. You can also submit them as comments on this post.

We'll spotlight some of the best suggestions.

Update at 2:45 p.m. ET. Between this post, Twitter and Facebook, more than 200 suggestions/comments have already come in. Some have the to-be-expected attempts at humor or harsh words that can't be shared in a "family" blog, but many also hit on real issues. Some examples:

 

— "Wil" on Facebook: "How can you uphold the Constitution when you advocate legislating from the bench?"

— "Jeanne" on Facebook: "If you were faced with a question that required you to vote against your conscience to uphold the Constitution, what would you do?"

— "Clayton" on Facebook: "Are you going to be consistent in your judicial philosophy as you have expressed in your prior years on the bench and in your conversations with members of the U.S. Senate? I hope so; because the man that you are replacing was originally a poster boy for the right wing of the Republican Party and he wound up voting against his former colleagues on every major judicial issue that came before the court. David Souter was one of the political turncoats of his time."

— "pyroprojectile" on Twitter: "Are you aware your past comments reveal a large amount of bias toward certain gender and ethnic groups?"

— "lorikendall999" on Twitter: "What is your definition of judicial activism and what decisions have you made on the Appeals Bench that meet this definition?

— "ericthomas1967" on Twitter: "How would you define the 'Better' judgment you outlined in your now-famous speech regarding latina vs. white judges?"

— "CursorTN" on Twitter: "What is your opinion of the issues raised in the Court's majority ruling to overturn your decision in Ricci v. DeStefano?"

— "Ethan Young" in the comments thread below: "What definitions and process do you use to determine whether a decision (yours or someone else's) is fair, just and constitutional?"