MIAMI, FL—A federal judge has dismissed former president Donald Trump’s sensational lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, ruling that the “crudely drawn stick figures” at the center of the controversy now constitute protected artistic expression under the newly ratified ‘First Doodle Amendment.’

The lawsuit, filed last summer, accused the Journal of ‘devastating reputational cartoonery’ for reporting that Trump sent a risqué hand-sketched caricature to deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. Trump’s legal complaint insisted the artwork, described by experts as “roughly resembling a potato with hair,” was a malicious fabrication. However, Judge Linda Bacardi concluded the suit failed to demonstrate ‘actual malice or recognizable anatomy’ in the allegedly lewd drawing.

Lead Trump attorney Lance Figment stated, “Our client has only ever sent tasteful, presidential doodles—mostly self-portraits and the occasional eagle. Any lascivious potato figures are, at worst, innocent misunderstandings of the Trump style.”

Wall Street Journal editor Barkley Ripman called the ruling a victory for journalists and amateur artists everywhere. “Freedom of the press must extend even to poorly rendered cartoons of public figures sending anatomically ambitious sketches to billionaires,” said Ripman, adding the Journal stands by its reporting and its crayon selection.

Reached for comment, a spokesperson for Rupert Murdoch announced, “Mr. Murdoch cherishes free speech and will continue to defend the right to publish suggestive doodles, especially when they involve powerful friends engaged in completely normal billionaire behavior.”

Trump now has two weeks to refile the complaint, promising this time to include ‘photoshop analyses, finger-paint forensics, and the world’s greatest Sharpie experts.’