An article on Jan. 6, “Taxpayers could pay up to $200,000 for redistricting consultants,” reported that paid consultants will be evaluating and proposing new district maps after the Wisconsin Supreme Court declared the current maps unconstitutional.

In the article, the court’s conservative minority opposed the hiring of consultants, arguing that the decision outsourced the Legislature’s map-drawing authority to “two out-of-state, unelected and unaccountable political scientists.”

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In response to that, I would assert that such uninterested third-party consultants are exactly who should be redrawing the maps. Also, if you want to talk about unelected and unaccountable, I would point out that the current maps were drawn in secret, behind closed doors, by a highly paid partisan law firm.

Joseph Baier, Pewaukee

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This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Wisconsin Supreme Court rightly wants district maps drawn by outsiders